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 2

December 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 2 (December 2021)

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Monique GADAIS

 

Rehabilitation of the garden site Jardin Clos du Pré Nouveau d’Arcens in Ardèche

The rehabilitation of the terraced site with historic and socio-economic values invites citizens to participate and learn about this particular cultural landscape. T

 

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Maruja SALAS, Cinzia ZONTA

A walk and talk - visiting the terraces in Valstagna, Valbrenta, Veneto

Ihe following text deals with the logic of conversations taken place while visiting the different sites of the project Adopt a Terraced In the River Brenta Valley.

 

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Sampoorna BHATTACHARYA, Regan ZINK, Silvia SARAPURA - ESCOBAR, Jorge NOVO

Perspectives of women at the forefront of pre-Inca terrace stewardship in Central Peru

This article highlights the experiences, struggles, sentiments, contributions and reflections of four diverse women representing four rural Andean communities in Central Peru.

 

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Margherita ERMIRIO with collaboration of Agnese SERRA

“Even You”

Experiences in the field by Tu Quoque Association of Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Italy

This contribution by the TuQuoque Association from Cinque Terre give a chronological panorama of a multifaceted and interwoven cluster of activities regarding the revival of the culture and the artistic dimensions of terraced territories at local, national and global levels.

 

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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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Eiji YAMAJI

Rice Terrace and Its Conservation by the “Ownership” Program in Japan

Rice terraces, Tanada in Japanese, account for 10% of paddy fields in Japan. Due to its location and situation, they are severely deprived and threatened with decline and extinction.

 

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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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