| Climate
Variability and Household Welfare in the Andes: Farmer adaptation
and use of weather forecasts in decision-making
Bolivia, Peru
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Partners |
Start
date
08 /1999 |
End
date
07 /2003 |
Commitment
(£)
n/a |
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University
of Missouri-Columbia Department
of Agricultural Economics / Department
of Rural Sociology |
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UNDP,
Bolivia |
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International
Potato Center, Peru |
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Collaborators |
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PROINPA,
Promotion and Research on Andean Crops-Bolivia |
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CIRNMA, Center for Research in Natural Resources and the Environment,
Peru |
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SINSAAT,
Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Alimentaria y Alerta Temprana
(National System of Food Security and Early Warning) |
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Funder |
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NOAA
Office of Global Programs (OGP) |
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Climate
and Societal Interactions Division |
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Contacts
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Corinne
Valdivia, Research Associate Professor, ValdiviaC@missouri.edu
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Christian
Jetté, Program Officer, United Nations Development
Program Bolivia Christian.jette@UNDP.org
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 Purpose
The project
aimed to identify the climatic information delivery systems
suited for Andean agriculture by investigating how farmers
currently use local forecast information to make production
and consumption decisions. |
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Lessons: |
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Climate
Variability and Household Welfare in the Andes: Farmer adaptation
and use of weather forecasts in decision-making
Final Report submitted to NOAA’s Human Dimensions of
Global Change Research (HDGCR) Program, Corinne Valdivia,
Jere L. Gilles, Christian Jetté, Roberto Quiroz PDF |
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Coping
And Adapting To Climate Variability: The Role Of Assets, Networks,
Knowledge And Institutions
Corinne Valdivia, Jere L. Gilles, Christian Jetté, Roberto
Quiroz, Rigoberto Espejo, Bolivia PDF |
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Coping
and Adapting to Increased Climate Variability in the Andes
C. Valdivia and R. Quiroz. 2003. Selected Paper American Agricultural
Economics Association. July 27-30, Montréal Canada PDF |
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Peasant
Household Strategies in the Andes and Potential Users of Climate
Forecasts: El Nino of 1997-1998 C. Valdivia, C. Jetté,
R. Quiroz, J. Gilles, and S. Materer. 2000. Selected Paper American
Agricultural Economics Association. July 30- August 2. Tampa,
Florida. PDF |
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Climate
Variability, a Producer Typology and the Use of Forecasts: Experience
From Andean Semiarid Small Holder Producers C. Valdivia,
J. L. Gilles, and S. Materer. 2000. Proceedings of the International
Forum on Climate Prediction Agriculture and Development. International
Research Institute for Climate Prediction. Palisades, New York.
pp. 227-239. PDF |
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Andean
Livelihood Strategies and the Livestock Portfolio
C. Valdivia, 2001. American Anthropological Association 100th
Annual Meeting. November 28 - December 2. Washington DC. Arlington
VA PDF |
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Rural
Livelihood Strategies, Assets, and Economic Portfolios in Coping
with Climatic Perturbations: A Case Study of the Bolivian Andes
C. Valdivia and R. Quiroz. 2001. Integrated Natural Resource
Management for Sustainable Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries,
28-31 August, International Center for Tropical Agriculture,
CIAT, Cali Colombia. PDF
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Climate
Variability and Household Welfare in the Andean Region.
Progress Reports Year 1 PDF
Year 2 PDF
Final report PDF
Illustrations PDF |
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Background and use of SL
The
study set out to explore successful strategies to cope with
climatic variation developed by farmers in the Andean region
as a basis for assessing the role of current and potential
information systems. The research framework was informed by
the SL literature, which provided entry points for economics,
sociology and the biophysical sciences to address the question
of how households cope and adapt to stressors and shocks.
The
research also set out to identify factors that contribute
to or constrain coping with climate variability. This included
investigating the mechanisms, institutions and networks which
facilitate or constrain the utilisation of climate forecast
information to adapt cropping patterns or diversify livelihood
strategies.
The
diversity of household strategies in use showed that interactions
between the structures (social, market, and political), climate,
and policies result in increased vulnerability through time
for those constrained by access to assets. While some farmers
benefited from government policies and assistance programs
in dairy farming, others took on commercial potato production.
Those farmers whose coping strategies could include diversification
into dairy farming need climate forecast information less.
Crop farmers, who have less choices and insurance mechanisms,
also have the flexibility to adjust planting and varieties.
These farmers take into account climate forecast information,
but locally generated, in the belief that forecasts are only
valid for the location in which they are generated. All these
findings point to an opportunity for collaborating with farmers
and other institutions in developing and validating local
scale information products.
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