Latin America
For nearly 20 years one woman has been battling to restore the elaborate Inca Canals in the Peruvian Andes, which once supported a thriving population of farmers. All over the Peruvian Andes, beautifully engineered Inca-built irrigation canals once distributed water to elaborate terrace systems. In turn, the terraces oases of cultivation on the precipitous and other wise barren mountain slopes...
Management of Natural Resources in mountain areas inhabited by traditional societies has been experimenting technological and market pressures which in many cases have affected sustainable livelihoods. Impacts of new agricultural technologies and crops, indiscriminate use of agrochemicals, new forms of labor organization, increased pressure from city markets, among others are changing...
The potential for developing participatory and pluralist models makes the theme of collaborative links among service/research organizations, local level development agencies and rural people one of growing interest, though it is increasingly recognised that well-founded strategies and practical tools are required to achieve satisfactory results. In this paper, comparative advantages of...
Two ice cores from the col of Huascaran in the northcentral Andes of Peru contain a paleoclimatic history extending well into the Wisconsinan Glacial Stage and include evidence of the Younger Dryas cool phase. Glacial stage conditions at high elevations in the tropics appear as much as 8-12 degrees cooler, the atmosphere was 200 times dustier, and the Amazon Basin forest cover may have been 40...
The case the authors are presenting is a study of social conflict on the plateau of Collao, which encompasses the department of Puno, located in the macroregion of the south of Peru. This reflection focuses on the analysis of productive systems that have begun to be established in the rural environment, the dynamic of structural transformations and the behaviour of the social actors;...
In the northern highland sierra of Ecuador, marketing of medicinal teas on a micro-enterprise and supplementary income level offers an opportunity to apply indigenous knowledge to sustainable grassroots development. At the same, this type of project promotes in situ conservation of both indigenous knowledge and biodiversity. This article presents and discusses a project that is currently...
Usually analysts of acts which generate conflicts and violence, particularly in mountain zones, resort to the characterization of a series of factors of an instrumental type, such as the ineffectual attitudes of the current government, the incapacity of the poor to become part of the modern world, the inadequate mechanisms of development politics, etc., in order to be able to explain the...
There has been a tremendous amount of commentary and even controversy surrounding the deadly mudslide in north-western Nicaragua that killed between 1,800-2,200 people, destroyed two villages, and became the rallying point for international environmentalists condemning Central American land use policies and deforestation. With the recent highly moving visit to the site by U.S. President Bill...
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