ABSTRACT
Globalization and climate change are impacting on the tropical regions of the world in significant ways, especially in rural communities that depend on farming and pastoralism for their livelihoods (Coppock et al., 2017; Seth et al., 2010; Valdivia et al., 2010; Young and Lipton, 2006; Lobell, 2008; Bebbington, 1999). This is specially the case in mountain regions, like the Andean region in South America. Increases in food insecurity are expected, which will require policies to protect vulnerable populations (Brown and Funk, 2008). Coupled with these global drivers are government policies on economic growth that have adverse effects on rural development in Latin America, where very few rural regions have experienced economic development (Berdegue, Bebbington, and Escobal, 2015).
