The practice had been abandoned even before the rise of Inca civilization in the 13th century. The effort to revive ancient raised field agriculture collapsed.

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The raised field agriculture provided pre-Columbian farmers with better drainage, soil aeration, moisture retention during the dry season, and higher and longer-term soil fertility than in ...

As Clark L. Erickson explains in “ Raised Field Agriculture in the Lake Titicaca Basin: Technical Aspects and Its Future,” the most important functions of this agricultural technology in the ...

Intensive raised-field agriculture can become an alternative to burning down tropical forest for slash and burn agriculture by reclaiming otherwise abandoned and new savannah ecosystems created by ...

The effort to revive ancient raised field agriculture collapsed. An aerial photograph shows pre-Columbian raised fields in Bolivia. Umberto Lombardo, University of Bern, Switzerland, CC BY-NC ...