Agroecological data are used to test and confirm the hypothesis that field scattering is an effective means of reducing production risk in peasant farming communities in the Andes. Andean farmers plant a variety of crops, and plant each crop in several plots dispersed across the landscape. A risk minimization model is applied to a case study on the eastern Andean escarpment of southern Peru to evaluate the costs and benefits associated with field scattering in peasant agriculture. Farmers in Cuyo Cuyo plant up to twenty dispersed fields each year. Most fields are organized in sectorial fallowing systems in which crop rotations and fallowing schedules are coordinated by the community. Potatoes, other native Andean tubers, and fava beans are ...
Soil erosion is a serious constraint for agriculture and rural development in developing countries. ...
This paper investigates the effects of crop genetic diversity on farm productivity and production ri...
This article investigates the effects of wheat genetic diversity and land degradation on risk and ag...
In the high Andes, environmental and socio-economic drivers are transforming agriculture and presuma...
This paper investigates the effects of crop genetic diversity on farm productivity and production ri...
Rural areas of most developing nations are dependent on agriculture. In the most remote areas, somet...
Crop diversity in mountain areas and conservation strategy Diversité de l'agriculture en zones de mo...
This dissertation studies the determinants of adoption of soil conservation technologies, output div...
rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by an...
<p>Ribereños, the native farmers of the lowland Peruvian Amazon region, subsist in an ecologic...
This paper examines traditional intercropping from two points of view: (1) scientists\u27 explanatio...
This paper investigates the effects of wheat genetic diversity and land degradation on risk and agri...
The relationships between farmer's allocation of farm area to crops and the farmer's perception of a...
This article investigates the effects of wheat genetic diversity and land degradation on risk and ag...
Ribereños, the native farmers of the lowland Peruvian Amazon region, subsist in an ecologically comp...
Soil erosion is a serious constraint for agriculture and rural development in developing countries. ...
This paper investigates the effects of crop genetic diversity on farm productivity and production ri...
This article investigates the effects of wheat genetic diversity and land degradation on risk and ag...
In the high Andes, environmental and socio-economic drivers are transforming agriculture and presuma...
This paper investigates the effects of crop genetic diversity on farm productivity and production ri...
Rural areas of most developing nations are dependent on agriculture. In the most remote areas, somet...
Crop diversity in mountain areas and conservation strategy Diversité de l'agriculture en zones de mo...
This dissertation studies the determinants of adoption of soil conservation technologies, output div...
rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by an...
<p>Ribereños, the native farmers of the lowland Peruvian Amazon region, subsist in an ecologic...
This paper examines traditional intercropping from two points of view: (1) scientists\u27 explanatio...
This paper investigates the effects of wheat genetic diversity and land degradation on risk and agri...
The relationships between farmer's allocation of farm area to crops and the farmer's perception of a...
This article investigates the effects of wheat genetic diversity and land degradation on risk and ag...
Ribereños, the native farmers of the lowland Peruvian Amazon region, subsist in an ecologically comp...
Soil erosion is a serious constraint for agriculture and rural development in developing countries. ...
This paper investigates the effects of crop genetic diversity on farm productivity and production ri...
This article investigates the effects of wheat genetic diversity and land degradation on risk and ag...