Introduction
This page looks at the impacts of climate change on different sectors in Bolivia. It forms part of a larger report produced by Tahia Devisscher and Ben Smith in November 2008 as background to inform Sida’s work in Bolivia. The rest of the report is here.
Bolivia’s dependence on natural resources is high with primary agricultural production contributing almost 13% to the GDP (Iwanciw, 2007). Two decades ago, the global mining crisis led to economic diversification of the…