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Stunting in an Andean community: Prevalence and etiology

American Journal of Human Biology, 1998
The magnitude and potential causes of linear growth retardation in a rural agricultural community of the Ecuadorian Andes are examined. Growth stunting is common in this population, as height-for-age Z-scores (HAZ) for boys and girls 1-5 years average -2.2 and -2.0, respectively. Dietary analyses suggest multiple nutrient deficiencies. The diet appears
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The Andean Community

2012
10.25540/XMQF-72Z0 ; American Society of International Law ; International Organisations Bulletin: UNAIDS ; 6 ...
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The Andean Community of Nations

2015
This chapter provides a detailed account of the institutional and legal structures of the Andean Community, one of the oldest sub-regional organisations in Latin America. The structures and the legal system developed by the organisation resemble and take into account the structures and functions of the European Union.
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conflict and cooperation in Andean communities

American Ethnologist, 1975
This paper presents a framework for the analysis of cooperation and conflict based on surveys and anthropological studies of Peruvian rural communities and an examination of the literature on the nature of peasant communities (Redfield, Lewis, Foster, and others).
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Maritime Communities and Coastal Andean Urbanization:

2019
Chapter 6 discusses the Early Horizon, first millennium BC site of Samanco (450 to 150 cal BC), near the shore in the Nepeña valley on the north coast of Peru. Fishing and shellfishing were important, as was agriculture, with maize as the most important crop. Samanco was a food production center supplying inland polities with subsistence goods from the
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Women's hierarchies of age and suffering in an Andean community

Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 1994
In the Aymara community of 'Utani', hierarchical relationships between middle aged and younger women are evident in the cycle of domestic life. An older woman - mother, sister, step mother, mother-in-law - has unquestioned authority as taskmistress over the labor of girls and young women; although very old women no longer wield such power. Post-marital
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Andean Community of Nations (CAN)

2019
Abstract The idea that the nations of Latin America should undertake political and economic integration is not recent (see also → Regional Co-operation and Organization: American States). For a number of reasons, including the lack of commonalities among the countries seeking political or economic integration, these efforts have tended ...
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No. 44568. Finland and Andean Community

2011
Agreement between the government of the republic of finland and the andean community on the installation phase of the cooperation in the biodiversity regional program in can member countries andeanamazon regions (biocan). Lima, 18 june 2007 [united nations, treaty series, vol. 2482, i-44568.]
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Altitudinal zonation of Andean cryptogam communities

Journal of Biogeography, 2000
AbstractTo test whether cryptogamic plant communities in tropical Andean rain forests are distributed in floristically discrete communities corresponding to altitudinal belts, I subjected the elevational distribution of pteridophytes along two elevational gradients in Bolivia, and of bryophytes and lichens along two transects in Peru and Colombia (data
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Community genetics of the key plant species Carex gayana in high Andean wetlands and conservation implications

Global and Planetary Change, 2023
Angeline Bertin, Nicolas Gouin
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