Corinne ValdiviaResearch
Associate Professor |
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SANREM |
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My training
- PhD Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia
- MS Agricultural Economics, MU
- BS Economics and Planning,
Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Peru
Research Teaching and Outreach
- Adapting
to Change in Vulnerable Andean
Ecosystems: Practices and Strategies to Address Climate and Market Risks. Long Term Research Project 4 (LTR4)
Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative
Research Support Program (SANREM CRSP). For more information visit SANREM@MU.
- Climate Variability and Household Welfare in the Andes: Farmer adaptation and use of weather forecasts in decision making funded by Human Dimensions Program, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). For more information visit ClimAndes
- Socio-Economics-Marketing SEM Research Cluster @ The Center for Agroforestry MU Center for Agroforestry, Identifying agroforestry practices for Missouri family farms.
- Director of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Minor in International Development @ the Graduate School, MU. For more information: Graduate Interdisciplinary Minor in International Development Graduate School
- Associate Director- International Agriculture Programs, CAFNR, promoting the international/global dimension of research, teaching, and outreach. Please visit International Agriculture Programs @ CAFNR-MU
- Cambio Center Fellow with a focus on the Livelihood Strategies of Newcomers in Receiving Communities in Missouri and the Livelihoods in Sending Communities in Mexico in collaboration with the Gender Area faculty of Colegio de Postgraduados, Texcoco, Mexico.
- Cambio de Colores 2004 and 2005; Cambio de Colores in Missouri 2002. (What is Cambio de Colores)
- Hispanic and Latin American Faculty and Staff Association MU HLAFSA
- Rural livelihood strategies and Sustainable Livelihoods: The study of household and individual livelihood strategies, economic diversification, control of resources, and welfare in rural communities of the Andes, East Africa and India. See Articles, Reports, and Publications
- Faculty Member of the Resources and Development Thrust of the Agricultural Economics Graduate Program
Books and Journal Reprints Available Upon Request
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- About my Research
- Research Interests and Specialization
- Grants Past and Present
- Professional Activities
- Articles, Reports, and Publications
About my
Research
My research and
outreach
activities concentrate on understanding the mechanisms that lead to
sustainable
livelihood strategies. All my activities require collaboration with
several disciplines. Methodological approaches in my research
are
household economics, political economics, and sociology to study
decision
making in rural areas of the tropics, especially in semi-arid
highland
and sub-humid regions of Latin America and East Africa. The
purpose is to
understand the factors that enable individuals, households and
communities in rural areas to transition to food security and economic
growth
in a sustainable matter, and to design technologies and policies to
facilitate
this process. The study the impact of climate, markets,
technologies and policies at the
community,
household, and intra-household levels include gender,
microeconomic and
political economy approaches.
Specific on-going
research
in the Andean region focuses on adaptation to change, mostly driven by
climate, but also markets. This effort is based on past research to
understand household strategies to
cope with
climate variability, changes in land use patterns, and welfare through
the life
cycle in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Current
research is funded by USAID Title XII and several partnering
institutions in the US and the Andes. Previous research was funded by
the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Human Dimensions of
Global Change
Program.
Research in East
Africa my research has focused on the
role of
livestock in household food security, understanding households
strategies to deal with climate shocks that
affect
income, consumption, and food security (household consumption smoothing
strategies), agricultural and non agricultural activities (rural
strategies). More recently it has focused on the pathways for research
to impact on wellbeing.
Research has developed
into
outreach. My efforts focus on strengthening the capacities of people in
national
agricultural
research institutions by incorporating social sciences research to
facilitate
a greater positive impact of technologies for small holder
producers. On the
other hand, my outreach in Mexico evolved into an initiative in
Missouri to address the changing needs of our state
due to
the rapid growth of Latino Newcomers. Cambio de Colores (Change
of
Colors) in
Missouri 2002 was the first of now 8 conferences addressing
change. This led into a new research program on Asset
Accumulation Strategies in New Settlement Communities in the Midwest,
funded by USDA CSRESS NRI.
Finally, also in
Missouri an
interdisciplinary project focusing on agroforestry practices for
economic
development and environmental benefits is studying current land use
management
practices, portfolios of economic activities, and motivation for
diversification.
My goal as a
scientist in
an institution of higher education is to learn, develop and communicate
approaches and methods that enable us to understand, evaluate, and
identify
means through which people can pursue sustainable and secure
livelihoods.
As an economist I strive to understand the underlying economic
constraints and
opportunities to achieving this security; as a social scientist I
incorporate
non-economic motivations (eg. life cycle, gender, institutions) to the
research
process, to understand how decision makers are agents of change.
Collaborative Efforts
- The SANREM CRSP led by Virginia Tech and funded by USAID Title XII and participating institutions.
- Cambio de Colores (Change of Colors) with the University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Missouri Outreach and Extension, The University of Missouri System, Alianzas at University of Missouri Kansas City, and many state and community organizations in Missouri and the Midwest
- The Center for Agroforestry, University of Missouri-Columbia
- The International Potato Center's Division of Production Systems and Natural Resource Management on Strategies for Sustainable Liveihoods Research and Development
- The Gender Area Faculty of the Institute for Rural Development, Colegio de Postgraduados, Mexico
- The Kenya Agricultural Research Institute through International Programs at CAFNR-MU
- United Nations Development Program- Bolivia
- Collective Action and Property Rights Initiative, a Systemwide Program of the CGIAR
- CIRNMA, Centro de Investigación en
Recursos Naturales y Medio Ambiente, Peru
- PROINPA, Research Institute on Research and Promotion of Andean Crops, Bolivia
Past Activities
As Principal
Investigator
-for the NOAA Human Dimensions project between 1998 and 2003, please
visit ClimAndes.
-for the Social Sciences in the Small Ruminant Collaborative Research Support Program in Kenya and Bolivia between 1994 and 1997, our project collaborated with researchers in the Instituto Boliviano de Tecnología Agropecuaria and in the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute in several projects. Some of the research results are published in this site.
Visit the pages of ClimAndes
WWW.DeColores.Missouri.edu
WWW.Missouri.edu/HLAFSA
http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/Faculty/CValdivia/
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