Publisher:

University of Coventry, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) Coventry, United Kingdom in cooperation with ITLA

ISSN 2754-7639 (Online)

 

Current issue:

Volume 2, Number 1

October 2021

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The International Terraced Landscapes Alliance Journal serves as a forum for the activities of the various terraced landscape networks and reflects the experiences of ITLA members and their local or national networks for the revitalisation of terraced landscapes and their custodians in different parts of the world - on all continents.

 

Volume 2 Number 1 (October 2021)

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Maruja SALAS and Lidia Esther ROMERO MARTIN

 

Women and Terraces

 

The section “Experiences from the field” of this issue of the ITLA journal presents three articles focusing on Women and Terraces approaching the special relationship of women with nature in mountainous areas.

 

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Artemis Yiordamli

 

Stone-breaking in Skirts Women building terraces in Pelendri village, Pitsillia, Cyprus

 

In the early part of the 20th century, the island of Cyprus in the East Mediterranean, then a British colony, had a mostly agrarian economy to which the whole family contributed its labour during the harvesting seasons (vineyards, carobs, olives, fruits, potatoes), if not all year round.

 

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Giorgia De Pasquale

 

Femmene minute cu’ ‘a forza ‘e ‘nu gigante (Little women with a giant’s power) in the terraced landscape of Amalfi Coast

 

Women have always had a fundamental role in taking care of the terraced landscape in Amalfi Coast.

 

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Rocio ROMERO

 

Between the countryside and the city:

Female Rurality & Situated Knowledge

 

This text deals with the experience of Griselda Yanque Mamani, a 75-year-old farmer and retired bilingual teacher from a South Andean Aymara community in the Puno region of southern Peru.

 

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Volume 1 Number 2 (December 2020)

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Lucija AŽMAN MOMIRSKI, Tessa MATTEINI, Michel PIMBERT

 

Key Issues in Terraced Landscapes (TLs)

 

The four thematic groups that formed the central content addressed various inherent aspects of terraced landscapes, as well as conceptual and instrumental statements that outlined the strategic objectives of the fourth congress.

 

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Gilmar SANTISTEBAN, Juan Victor BÉJAR, Timmi TILLMANN

 

ITLA and Reenchanting Terraces in Peru

 

In Peru there are currently about one million hectares of terraces of different characteristics that integrate Andean Amazonian territories.

 

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Raimund RODEWALD

 

Traditional irrigation: Candidature for Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

 

After dry stone walls, another infrastructure of terraced landscapes is in the focus of UNESCO: “Traditional Irrigation in Europe - Knowledge, Technique and Organisation”.

 

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Volume 1 Number 1 (October 2020)

 

Timmi TILLMANN, Maruja SALAS

 

Ten years of ITLA and the potentials of terraced landscapes

 

The development of ITLA as a growing movement of individuals and institutions working for the conservation and recovery of the terraced landscapes.

 

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Alain HAYS

 

From world heritage to an international living networks alliance

 

The discussion on the first congress in the Ailao Mountains and on the global movement of the International Terraced Landscapes Alliance.

 

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