Climate change and crop diversity: farmers’ perceptions and adaptation on the Bolivian Altiplano

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 703-730

  Meldrum, Gennifer ^a   Mijatović, Dunja ^b   Rojas, Wilfredo ^c   Flores, Juana ^c   Pinto, Milton ^c   Mamani, Grover ^d   Condori, Eleuterio ^e   Hilaquita, David ^f   Gruberg, Helga ^a,b   Padulosi, Stefano ^a  

^a BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL   (Italy)

^b Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research   (Italy)

^c Fundacion PROINPA   (Bolivia)

^d CARE   (Bolivia)

^e Cetha Tupac Katari   (Bolivia)

^f Samaritan s Purse   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Agrobiodiversity; Andes; Pests and diseases; Resilience; Stress tolerance; Traditional knowledge and practices

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE CONTROL; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PERCEPTION; PEST SPECIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS RESISTANCE; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; TUBER; VULNERABILITY;

ALTIPLANO; ANDES; BOLIVIA;

AYMARA; CHENOPODIUM QUINOA; OXALIS TUBEROSA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 85008457057     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: 15732975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-016-9906-4     Document Type: Article

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