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Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Characteristics and Importance to Climatic Uncertainty
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Materer,   Susan M.; Valdivia,   Corinne; Gilles,   Jere L.
This paper details the importance of indigenous knowledge systems in developing countries around the world. Farmers, communities and households that live in risky environments, have developed intricate systems of diversification that help secure income and food consumption. An integral part of these systems are the knowledge systems that help households plan for future events and decrease uncertainty. Recently indigenous knowledge systems have been given more attention as their importance is addressed in development projects. Unfortunately acknowledgment and understanding of how knowledge systems are used is still not a basic part of all research. This is especially important in the recent advancement of climate and weather forecasting. Scientific...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92903

Peasant Households Strategies in the Andes and Potential Users of Climate Forecasts: El Nino of 1997-1998
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Valdivia,   Corinne; Jette,   Christian; Quiroz,   Roberto; Gilles,   Jere L.; Materer,   Susan M.
Production strategies pursued by households and individuals in a peasant community of the Bolivian Altiplano are shaped by access to resources, social networks and institutions, wealth, and the ability to develop urban rural linkages. In times of climatic stress such as the low rainfall of 1995, the household economic portfolio shifts to activities less vulnerable to climate. The ability to shift is conditioned by access to resources, social capital, stage in the life cycle and wealth. Atypology developed to understand how strategies take shape during a drought is used to evaluate access to information during el Nino (1997-98) and impacts on potato production in 1998-99. The relationship between diversification and use of climate forecasts (local and...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Climate Variability; El Nino; Coping Strategies; Rural Livelihoods; Climate Forecasts; Consumer/Household Economics; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92895

PEASANT HOUSEHOLD STRATEGIES IN THE ANDES  AND POTENTIAL USERS OF CLIMATE FORECASTS: EL NINO OF 1997-1998
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Valdivia,   Corinne; Jette,   Christian; Quiroz,   Roberto; Gilles,   Jere L.; Materer,   Susan M.
Production strategies pursued by households and individuals in a peasant community of the Bolivian Altiplano are shaped by access to resources, social networks and institutions, wealth, and the ability to develop urban rural linkages. In times of climatic stress such as the low rainfall of 1995, the household economic portfolio shifts to activities less vulnerable to climate. The ability to shift is conditioned by access to resources, social capital, stage in the life cycle and wealth.  A typology developed to understand how strategies take shape during a drought is used to evaluate access to information during el Niño (1997-8) and impacts on potato production in 1998-99. The relationship between diversification and use of climate forecasts (local and...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21772