SMALL RUMINANT CRSP
AGROPASTORAL RESEARCH COMPONENT
BOLIVIA

SR-CRSP/IBTA
TECHNICAL REPORT SERIES
IBTA 181/TECHNICAL REPORT 49/SR-CRSP 47/1996
Corinne Valdivia*
Christian Jetté

Peasant Households in Semi-Arid San José:
Confronting Risk Through Diversification Strategies.

1996

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
I. INTRODUCTION
II. VARIABILITY, RISK, AND PRODUCTIVE ALTERNATIVES
 III. SAN JOSÉ LLANGA, THE FACE OF DIVERSITY
 IV. CHARACTERIZING HOUSEHOLD PEASANT STRATEGIES
 V. CONCLUSIONS
 VI. REFERENCES

Small Ruminant Collaborative
Research Support Program

University of Missouri-Columbia (MU)

 * Corinne Valdivia is Principal Investigator in the SR-CRSP, and Research Assistant Professor in Department of Agricultural Economics.

Mail should be directed to

C. Valdivia
University of Missouri-Columbia
200 Mumford Hall
Columbia, MO 65211

E-mail: ssvaldiv@muccmail.missouri.edu

This research was carried out as a part of the United States Agency for International Development Title XII Small Ruminant CRSP under grant number DAN-1328-G-00-0046-00. This technical report was reviewed by collaborating scientists in the SR-CRSP and the Instituto Boliviano de Technología Agropecuaria (IBTA).

SR-CRSP University of Missouri http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/ssu/srcrsp 961010