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La investigación tiene como objetivo analizar si las políticas públicas que hoy definen las reglas del juego para el desarrollo productivo en la agricultura permiten mitigar los efectos relacionados con el calentamiento global, y si estas son suficientes para evitar que el cambio climático presione sobre las dificultades ya existentes en el sector agrícola, o para impedir el surgimiento de nuevos factores de riesgo o amenazas que afecten la seguridad alimentaria del país. Así mismo, busca proponer algunas recomendaciones para el diseño de políticas públicas que permitan minimizar los riesgos y amenazas en relación con la adaptación de la producción agrícola al cambio climático y, por ende, asegurar el acceso físico, social y económico a los alimentos suficientes y nutritivos que satisfagan las necesidades de la población nacional y atenúen su efecto el ámbito multidimensional de la seguridad. En tal sentido, se busca responder a la siguiente pregunta: ¿Qué desafíos plantea el cambio climático a la agricultura chilena en materia de seguridad alimentaria?

AbstractThis article provides the first series of adult male height for 19th-century Chile. Our aim was not only to assess the trends indicated by height during this period, but also the relationship between stature and both GDPper capitaand exports. Having analysed our data, our primary conclusion is that there was a reduction in height for cohorts born in the 1850s and 1860s with respect to cohorts born between 1820 and 1840. Height stagnated thereafter, with small to no improvement towards the end of the 19thcentury, in line with other Latin American countries for which there is comparable evidence. The increase inper capitaGDP and exports during the second half of the century did not result in better biological welfare, as was the case in other Latin American countries during similar export booms.

This article assesses the state of the agrarian sector and the composition of the Chilean agrarian elite during the first half of the nineteenth century, a rather unexplored period in Chile's agrarian historiography. We have used several untapped sources such as the Catastro Agricola and El Agricultor. From the former we have built and processed a half a million records database. From the former we have built and processed a database consisting of half a million records from the first three agricultural censuses of 1832, 1838 and 1852. We have explained why the agricultural sector was so backwards in Chile, while also established a very unequal distribution of both land tenure and agricultural income. Finally, our results show a great persistence within the composition of the agrarian elites between late colonial times and the first decades of republican Chile, as well as a significant correlation between the large landowners with highest agricultural income and the political elite. Keywords Author Keywords:Chile; nineteenth century; agriculture; cadastre; elites; landowners; inequality