Market integration: The challenge of climate change

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2009
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Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies Global Knowledge Services
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This article analyzes the effect of adaptive small-scale agricultural strategies in the Bolivian Altiplano region on local diet, market integration, and economic welfare. Farmers in this area are starting to produce non-indigenous varieties of potato and other products because they have higher market value. The long-term implications of these agricultural changes are uncertain, but researchers suggest that they are not sustainable and will exacerbate inequalities by causing the most disadvantaged people to become more vulnerable to climate change. [summary from the record creator]

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Household enterprise, Sustainable agriculture, Indigenous community, Local markets, Small holder enterprise, Smallholders, Bolivian Altiplano, Household capital, Climate change, Farm/Enterprise Scale Field Scale
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