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The Andean highlands are home to some of the poorest rural households in South America. Native potato varieties and local knowledge for their cultivation and use are unique resources possessed by farmers in these areas.
What do people bring into the game
The study of collective action requires an understanding of the individual incentives and of the institutional constraints that guide people in making choices about cooperating or defecting on the group facing the dilemma.
This paper characterizes and measures the contribution of social capital to the performance of 50 agroenterprises in Colombia.
This paper characterizes and measures the contribution of social capital to the performance of 50 agroenterprises in Colombia.
Collective action in ant control
Leaf-cutting ants (Atta. cephalotes) represents a serious problem to farmers in many parts of Latin America and accounts of ants eating up a whole cassava plot or destroying one or more fruit trees overnight are not uncommon.