Enhance indigenous agricultural systems to reduce migration

Keith L. Kline, Luis F. Ramirez, Carlos Sum, Santiago Lopez-Ridaura and Virginia H. Dale ()
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Keith L. Kline: Environmental Sciences Division
Luis F. Ramirez: Buena Milpa Project, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
Carlos Sum: Buena Milpa Project, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
Santiago Lopez-Ridaura: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), El Batan
Virginia H. Dale: Environmental Sciences Division

Nature Sustainability, 2020, vol. 3, issue 2, 74-76

Abstract: Changes in social and environmental conditions in the Western Highlands of Guatemala undermine food security and job opportunities. We describe how targeted assistance can build upon traditional agricultural systems to increase adaptive capacity, improve nutrition, provide jobs and thereby reduce pressures to migrate.

Date: 2020
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