Ross Mary Borja

TL;DR: The authors worked with smallholder family farmers in five Andean villages in Ecuador to apply participatory four-cell analysis (PFCA) in characterizing agrobiodiversity, finding it useful for initiating researcher-farmer explorations of promising innovation pathways.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how mass pesticide poisoning and obesity can be viewed as the product of the success of the modernization policy as well as a specific range of global phenomena configuring civic activity and policy situations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors characterize the composition and nutrient adequacy of the diets in the northern region of the Department of Potosi, Bolivia, using a total of 2,222 twenty-four-hour dietary recall data.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored locally developed options for hedgerows that address water erosion and nutrient depletion in the Andes poses serious existential threats to small-scale farming, and they concluded that although hedgers are unlikely to produce sufficient quantities of organic resources to satisfy all nutrient input requirements, their potential to decrease erosion and supplement existing organic matter inputs indicates that they should be strongly considered as an option for improved agricultural management within this and similar resource constrained contexts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify biophysical patterns in soil properties, biodiversity, and C stocks that emerge from natural landscape pedogenic processes, resulting from elevation-induced climate gradients, erosion and soil textural patterns.