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Climate Variability and Household Welfare in the Andes

Title Climate Variability and Household Welfare in the Andes: Farmer adaptation and use of weather forecasts in decision making
Leading Institution

University of Missouri-Columbia (MU)

Funding Office of Global Programs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Grant NA96GP0239)
Collaborating Institutions
  • International Potato Center (CIP), Lima, Peru
  • United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Bolivia
  • Programa de Investigación de la Papa (PROINPA), Bolivia
  • Centro de Investigación de Recursos Naturales y Medio Ambiente (CIRNMA), Puno, Peru
Principal investigators Corinne Valdivia and Jere Gilles, Social Sciences Unit, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri-Columbia
Co-Principal Investigators Roberto Quiroz (CIP), Christian Jetté (UNDP)
Collaborating Scientists

Javier Aguilera, Enrique Carrasco, Ramiro Carrillo, Bruno Condori (PROINPA)
Roberto Valdivia, Jorge Reinoso (CIRNMA)
Guillermo Baigorria (CIP)

Expert Panel

Ricardo Claverías

Pablo Lagos (Instituto Geofísico del Perú)

Graduate Research Assistant Susan Materer (MU)
Corresponding Address

Corinne Valdivia
200 Mumford Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211, U.S.A.

E-mail: ValdiviaC@Missouri.edu
Phone: (573)882-4020
Fax: (573)882=3958

Website: http://www.clima.missouri.edu/