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Es frecuente que al diseñar programas o proyectos sociales se requiera priorizar ámbitos de intervención sean estos geográficos (departamentos, provincias o distritos), comunidades o grupos sociales. A continuación se ofrece una metodología y un ejemplo de aplicación de esta herramienta conocida como el diagrama de Vester. Los conceptos básicos de esta herramienta1 se atribuyen a Frederic Vester (1925-2003), bioquímico alemán quien tuvo una carrera académica distinguida en universidades de Alemania y Suiza y colaboró con el Club de Roma en sus modelos de cambio ecológico, económico y social. Nuestro aporte es adaptar esta herramienta a problemas sociales que tienen una distribución territorial para permitir priorizar intervenciones de programas sociales públicos o privados. Las ventajas de esta herramienta son su simplicidad y versatilidad como intentaremos demostrar en l...

Presentation of the dossier on diversification of professional practice and expansion of the field of applied anthropology.

In Andean communities, many families whose livelihoods depend on farming and raising livestock are exposed to increasing degradation of their ecosystem and to food insecurity. The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which families use migration strategies, based on multi residence and migratory circulation, to diversity their sources of income and mitigate the consequences of ecological degradation on their living conditions. The results are part of a socio-demographic research conducted in 2015 and 2016, which focused on domestic strategies for addressing environmental problems in a sample of 203 families living in five high Andean communities around Lake Titicaca. Most of families have migrant members and young adults between ages 20 and 35 represent the largest number of them. Nevertheless, their departure does not constitute an explicit form of adaptation to the ...

Presentation of the dossier on diversification of professional practice and expansion of the field of applied anthropology.

En las comunidades andinas, muchas familias cuyos medios de vida dependen de la agricultura y la ganadería están expuestas a una degradación creciente de su ecosistema y a la inseguridad alimentaria. El objetivo de este artículo es examinar en qué medida las familias utilizan estrategias de migración, basadas en la multi residencia y la migración circular, para diversificar sus fuentes de ingresos y mitigar las consecuencias de la degradación ecológica en sus condiciones de vida. Los resultados son parte de una investigación sociodemográfica realizada en 2015 y 2016, que se centró en las estrategias domésticas para enfrentar los problemas ambientales, en una muestra de 203 familias que viven en cinco comunidades altoandinas alrededor del lago Titicaca. La mayoría de las familias tienen miembros migrantes y los adultos jóvenes entre 20 y 35 años representan el mayor númer...

In Andean communities, many families whose livelihoods depend on farming and raising livestock are exposed to increasing degradation of their ecosystem and to food insecurity. The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which families use migration strategies, based on multi residence and migratory circulation, to diversity their sources of income and mitigate the consequences of ecological degradation on their living conditions. The results are part of a socio-demographic research conducted in 2015 and 2016, which focused on domestic strategies for addressing environmental problems in a sample of 203 families living in five high Andean communities around Lake Titicaca. Most of families have migrant members and young adults between ages 20 and 35 represent the largest number of them. Nevertheless, their departure does not constitute an explicit form of adaptation to the ...

Presentation of the dossier on diversification of professional practice and expansion of the field of applied anthropology.

This article is dedicated to the coca farmers of the VRAE. It shows that the abundance of «purmas» or secondary forest is due to the overuse of soils where coca is cultivated, the excessive use of modern or agrochemical inputs in these plantations and the traditional or empirical management of the cultivation of cacao and other annual crops. The high correlation between plot size and area in «purmas» is a true reflection of the fallow crisis in the VRAE. This crisis, however, is a result of the unsustainability of the aforementioned agricultural systems. The most important factors of this crisis are, on the one hand, an agricultural intensification of the cultivation of coca that degrades the soil and, on the other hand, an extensive use of the soil without a technological change in the case of legal crops. In both cases, the overall effect is the destruction of forests, deforestatio...

En este artículo argumentamos que  este  tipo de agricultura  para el caso del Valle del río Apurímac y Ene (VRAE), localizado en la región sur de selva alta peruana, seguía en funcionamiento durante los años del 2001 y 2004. En ese período han ocurrido cambios  en esta modalidad de uso del suelo,  pero éstos han sido realmente menores. Para ilustrar estos cambios, aprovechamos un estudio realizado hace 14 años  utilizándolo como testimonio histórico.  En este trabajo describimos las estrategias productivas de los colonos y su impacto en la deforestación. Nuestro argumento central es que la combinación de estrategias productivas de sobrevivencia de los colonos, algunas basadas en un uso intensivo del suelo, acompañado de cambio tecnológico y otras que recurren a formas de uso muy extensivo del suelo, tienen como objetivo central reducir el riesgo en un contexto dond...

This article is dedicated to the coca farmers of the VRAE. It shows that the abundance of «purmas» or secondary forest is due to the overuse of soils where coca is cultivated, the excessive use of modern or agrochemical inputs in these plantations and the traditional or empirical management of the cultivation of cacao and other annual crops. The high correlation between plot size and area in «purmas» is a true reflection of the fallow crisis in the VRAE. This crisis, however, is a result of the unsustainability of the aforementioned agricultural systems. The most important factors of this crisis are, on the one hand, an agricultural intensification of the cultivation of coca that degrades the soil and, on the other hand, an extensive use of the soil without a technological change in the case of legal crops. In both cases, the overall effect is the destruction of forests, deforestatio...