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The Andean Initiative: Elevating a collaborative agenda on agrobiodiversity, climate action and healthy diets [PDF]
, 2020 The Andes Mountains, like many parts of the world, are facing unprecedented challenges to its sustainable development in the form of the climate crisis, COVID-19 pandemic, biodiversity loss and major inefficiencies in the food system.
International Potato Center
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, 2021 In these case studies, vicuñas are presented as biocultural components of the Andean altiplano's socioecological landscape. The environmental history of vicuñas is related to the multiple values of the species, especially of its appreciated fiber as a ...
Rojo, Veronica +2 more
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Andean indigenous food crops: nutritional value and bioactive compounds [PDF]
, 2011 The Andean area of South America is a very important center for the domestication of food crops. This area is the botanical origin of potato, peanut and tomato. Less well- known crops, such as quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa), kañiwa (Chenopodium pallidicaule)
Repo-Carrasco-Valencia (née Repo), Ritva
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The corregidor as dragon and the encomendero as lion: symbolic language to depict antisocial behavior in Guaman Poma’s Andean colonial world [PDF]
, 2014 With his Primer nueva coronica y buen gobierno Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (ca. 1535-post 1616), the best known Andean early-17th century author of indigenous descent, created a comprehensive and complex work about the indigenous past and the colonial ...
Dedenbach-Salazar Saenz, Sabine
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On the Pursuit of Good Living in Highland Ecuador: Critical Indigenous Discourses of Sumak Kawsay
Latin American Research Review, 2018 'Sumak' kawsay, a vision of good living originating in the thought of indigenous intellectuals, has attracted many commentators since its incorporation into Ecuador’s 2008 constitution.
Joe Quick, James T. Spartz
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Potato diversity at height: multiple dimensions of farmer-driven in-situ conservation in the Andes
, 2009 In-situ conservation Two types of in-situ conservation of crop genetic resources can be distinguished: farmer-driven and externally driven. The first is subject of this thesis and refers to the persistence of potato genetic resources in areas where ...
de Haan, S., Haan, S., de
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Cambios y Permanencias, 2014 In this article we examine some historiographical positions on the Bolivian Agrarian Reform from 1953, in order to interpret it as a project that intentionally proposed a mixed national model of economic and agricultural development, which
Carla Estefanía Cirelli
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Sounds of Power: Missionary Pipe Organs and Andean Resistance [PDF]
, 2021 In colonial Peru, the Spanish crown relied on religious orders, most notably Dominicans, Franciscans, and Jesuits, for accelerating processes of colonization.
Reich, Natalie
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Based on notified cases of human rabies exposure and human deaths by rabies to Colombia public health surveillance system between 2007 and 2016, we conducted a spatiotemporal analysis to identify epidemiological scenarios of high human rabies exposure ...
Marcela Rocío Arias Caicedo +4 more
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Paper, Pottery and Prosperity: Handicrafts and Rural Development in Thailand [PDF]
, 2010 The focus of this thesis is on the role of handicraft production in rural development in Northern Thailand, exploring how handicrafts evolve over time in the context of a modernising economy.
LIMKRIENGKRAI, JITSUDA
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