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 ...

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 ...