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| Jacobi, Johanna; Bottazzi, Patrick; Pillco, Maria Isabel; Schneider, Monika; Rist, Stephan. |
| Migration from the Bolivian Altiplano to the Amazonian lowlands poses a number of challenges related to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. Alto Beni, located in the Bolivian Yungas at the interface between two altitudinal zones, is a critical area in this respect. Unsustainable land use practices are leading to soil erosion, shallow landslides, as well as forest and biodiversity loss. Settlers from the Altiplano see themselves confronted with an ecosystem that does not support the agricultural systems they were once used to. Soil degradation and government incentives have promoted migration further into the rainforest, creating pressure on local indigenous groups and biodiversity. The best-suited land use system for the fragile soils... |
| Tipo: Book chapter |
Palavras-chave: Crop husbandry; Bolivia; Environmental aspects. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/32090/1/Jacobi-etal-2017-Building-farm-resilience-changing-climate_Chapter14-p321-247.pdf |
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| Jacobi, Johanna; Schneider, Monika; Pillco, Maria Isabel; Rist, Stephan. |
| Cocoa based small scale agriculture is the basic livelihood of most farming families in the region of Alto Beni in the Bolivian Andes. Cocoa cultivation is affected by climate change impacts, soil degradation, pests and plant diseases, and insecure cocoa prices. From a sustainable development point of view, cocoa farms need thus to become more resilient. Resilience refers to the ability within a farming system to reduce the sensitivity to stress factors while maintaining productivity, the capacity for self-organisation, to learn, and to adapt to change. Resilience can be subdivided in the three features buffer capacity, self-organisation, and adaptive capacity. This study addresses differences in resilience of organic and non-organic cocoa farms, and the... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Crop husbandry; Bolivia. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/24782/1/Jacobi-etal-2013-Tropentag-Poster.pdf |
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