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Los sistemas de andenería en los Andes centrales contribuyeron a la seguridad alimentaria y al desarrollo de las civilizaciones andinas prehispánicas. Actualmente el tejido socioeconómico andino está empobrecido, con escasa cohesión y falta de políticas coherentes que promuevan un desarrollo sustentable. El presente libro describe el origen de los sistemas de andenería en el contexto de cambio climático, geográfico, agroecológico y de ingeniería, así como su papel en la cultura y el patrimonio vivo. Se plantea que la rehabilitación de sistemas de andenería es viable en ciertas condiciones si se valora la tecnología tradicional, los servicios medioambientales que ofrecen estos sistemas, y se promueven actividades agrícolas sustentables y actividades complementarias no agrícolas que integren equitativamente a los habitantes rurales con los mercados.
Terracing --- Traditional farming --- Irrigation farming --- Rural development --- Indians of South America --- Agriculture - General --- Agriculture --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- History --- Irrigated agriculture --- Irrigated farming --- Irrigation agriculture --- Agriculture, Primitive --- Farming, Traditional --- Primitive agriculture --- Traditional agriculture --- Agricultural terracing --- Crop terracing --- Cultivation, Terrace --- Land terracing --- Terrace cultivation --- Terraces (Agriculture) --- Arid regions agriculture --- Irrigation --- Crops and water --- Soil conservation --- Tillage --- Water conservation --- agriculture --- irrigation --- histoire --- eau --- Pérou --- Indien
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Terraced agricultural landscapes in Africa are remarkable feats of human engineering and social organization, enabling the conservation of soil and water and the cultivation of food. Indigenous terraced landscapes are all the more valuable because they have been produced by the people themselves and maintained for several hundred years, evidencing a valuable degree of sustainability. Yet until this book, there have been few accounts of how such landscapes in Africa are produced and maintained over time. Taking a period of approximately a hundred years, 'Living Terraces' is both an ethnography and history of the terraces of Konso in southern Ethiopia. It traces the way Konso agriculture and landscape has been produced and managed in close relationship with broader changes in Konso political and cultural lives. In shedding new light on the relationships between landscapes, livelihoods, culture and development, the book demonstrates the embeddedness of social institutions in areas of social, cultural, religious and political life, showing that social institutions cannot easily be abstracted, replicated or used instrumentally for development purposes. The result is a call for an approach to social institutions, so vital to development, which centralizes a study of culture, history and power in the analysis. ELIZABETH E. WATSON is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.
Konso (African people) --- Terracing --- Cultural landscapes --- Cultural geography --- Landscapes --- Landscape archaeology --- Agricultural terracing --- Crop terracing --- Cultivation, Terrace --- Land terracing --- Terrace cultivation --- Terraces (Agriculture) --- Soil conservation --- Tillage --- Water conservation --- Af-Kareti (African people) --- Conso (African people) --- Gato (African people) --- Karate (African people) --- Kareti (African people) --- Komso (African people) --- Konsinya (African people) --- Cushites --- Ethnology --- Agriculture. --- History. --- Konso Special Woreda --- Africa. --- Culture. --- Development. --- Elizabeth E. Watson. --- Ethiopia. --- Heritage Resources. --- Konso. --- Livelihoods. --- Power. --- Social Institutions. --- Terraced Agricultural Landscapes. --- University of Cambridge.
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