Trees, terraces and llamas: Resilient watershed management and sustainable agriculture the Inca way

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Sussexen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Potato Centeren
cg.contributor.donorNatural Environment Research Council, United Kingdomen
cg.contributor.donorCentre National de la Recherche Scientifiqueen
cg.contributor.donorMinistry of Foreign Affairs, Franceen
cg.coverage.countryBolivia
cg.coverage.countryEcuador
cg.coverage.countryPeru
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BO
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2EC
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2PE
cg.coverage.regionSouth America
cg.creator.identifierGraham Thiele: 0000-0002-3739-0431en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02121-5en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1654-7209en
cg.journalAMBIOen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.river.basinANDESen
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systems
cg.subject.cipCLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTUREen
cg.subject.cipFOOD SECURITYen
cg.subject.cipBIODIVERSITY FOR THE FUTUREen
cg.subject.cipSOCIAL AND NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES SNSen
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigation
cg.subject.impactAreaEnvironmental health and biodiversity
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren
cg.subject.sdgSDG 13 - Climate actionen
cg.subject.sdgSDG 15 - Life on landen
cg.subject.sdgSDG 12 - Responsible consumption and productionen
cg.subject.sdgSDG 6 - Clean water and sanitationen
dc.contributor.authorFrogley, M.R.en
dc.contributor.authorChepstow-Lusty, A.en
dc.contributor.authorThiele, G.en
dc.contributor.authorChutas, C.A.en
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-03T23:19:15Zen
dc.date.available2025-03-03T23:19:15Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/173474
dc.titleTrees, terraces and llamas: Resilient watershed management and sustainable agriculture the Inca wayen
dcterms.abstractThe Inca and their immediate predecessors provide an exceptional model of how to create high-altitude functional environments that sustainably feed people with a diversity of crops, whilst mitigating erosion, protecting forestry and maintaining soil fertility without the need for large-scale burning. A comparison is provided here of landscape practices and impacts prior to and after the Inca, derived from a unique 4200-year sedimentary record recovered from Laguna Marcacocha, a small, environmentally sensitive lake located at the heart of the Inca Empire. By examining ten selected proxies of environmental change, a rare window is opened on the past, helping to reveal how resilient watershed management and sustainable, climate-smart agriculture were achieved. We contend that, in the face of modern environmental uncertainty, a second climate-smart agricultural revolution is necessary, but one that accounts for the significant social capital of highland communities whilst still leaning heavily on native crops, trees and livestock.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.audienceCGIARen
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen
dcterms.audienceDonorsen
dcterms.audienceExtensionen
dcterms.audienceFarmersen
dcterms.audienceGeneral Publicen
dcterms.audienceNGOsen
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makersen
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationFrogley, M.R.; Chepstow-Lusty, A.; Thiele, G.; Chutas, C.A. 2025. Trees, terraces and llamas: Resilient watershed management and sustainable agriculture the Inca way. AMBIO. ISSN 1654-7209. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02121-5en
dcterms.issued2025-01-27en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.subjectclimate-smart agricultureen
dcterms.subjectwatershed managementen
dcterms.subjectsustainable agricultureen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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