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Document title

Field scattering as agricultural risk management : a case study from Cuyo-Cuyo, Department of Puno, Peru

Authors(s) and Affiliation(s)

GOLAND C. ;

Abstract

Peasants in the eastern Andean escarpment often have plots spatially removed from each other. Although net yields are reduced 7% on average by the additional travel and transport required to tend dispersed fields, harvests from them buffer households from production shortfalls in an environment characterized by temporally and spatially unpredictable microclimatic and agroecological failures. - (DWG)

Keyword(s)

Structure agraire ; Système de culture ; Foncier ; Production agricole ; Rendement agricole ; Exploitation agricole ; Montagne ; Pérou ; Andes

Agrarian structure ; Farming system ; Land ; Agricultural production ; Crop yield ; Farm ; Mountain ; Peru ; Andes

Classification code(s)

531-506 : Pérou.

531-IX : AMERIQUE.

531 : BGI / PRODIG.

Source

Article of periodic

published at : Mountain research and development / ISSN 0276-4741

Editor : United Nations University, Tokyo - JAPON (1981)

Millesime : 1993, vol. 13, n^o4 [pp. 317-338]

Bibliographic references : 85 réf.

Collation : Illustration ;

Language

Anglais

Localisation

Laboratoire INTERGEO - Paris

INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 27286