Making sense of agrobiodiversity, diet, and intensification of smallholder family farming in the Highland Andes of Ecuador.
Ecol Food Nutr
; 52(6): 515-41, 2013.
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| ID: mdl-24083517
Methods are needed for helping researchers and farmers to interactively describe and analyze local practices in search of opportunities for improving health, environment, and economy. The authors worked with smallholder family farmers in five Andean villages in Ecuador to apply participatory four-cell analysis (PFCA) in characterizing agrobiodiversity. Margelef and Shannon indices examined ecological richness and evenness, and a simplified 24-hour dietary recall characterized food consumption. Cross-analysis tested interactions among agrobiodiversity, farm size, and diet. Overall trends appeared to work against sustainable intensification, with notable heterogeneity and positive deviance found in the practices of relatively smaller enterprises, representing a potential resource for sustainable intensification. The suite of methods was determined useful for initiating researcher-farmer explorations of promising innovation pathways.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Família
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Conservação dos Recursos Naturais
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Biodiversidade
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Agricultura
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Dieta
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Comportamento Alimentar
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Equity_inequality
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Ecuador
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Ecol Food Nutr
Ano de publicação:
2013
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Equador
País de publicação:
Estados Unidos