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GILLES, Jere L. et al. Loss factors for knowledge on the use of local climatic indicators in Bolivian North and Central Highlands. RIIARn [online]. 2014, vol.1, n.1, pp.7-15. ISSN 2409-1618.

In recent years there has been a strong interest in the recovery of the local knowledge of farmers in the Andes, which, in many areas utilize knowledge to predict the weather in the short and medium term in order to plan and manage climate risks affecting production. The studies focus on the use, evaluation and measurement of indicators, but misuse and loss that would be undermining the cognitive richness of farmer relationship with their environment has not been evaluated. It is well reported that while many organizations promote recovery processes for such practices, in the communities there is a tendency to stop using and lose this knowledge. Therefore, this study attempts to examine the factors most influential to the loss of knowledge about the use of local indicators for forecasting the weather, in order to contribute knowledge to reduce this loss. It has been determined that the most important factors for the disuse of indicators are socioeconomic and not climatic, which is placed as of relatively minor importance. This points outthe importance of planning the maintenance of this knowledge through formal sources of transfer, as the informal declined in their ability to maintain knowledge.

Palabras clave : Indicators; Highlands; climatic variability; loss.

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