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Making the Most of Mountain Soil

High altitude soils vary so greatly that it is hopeless to generalize about the physical properties and nutrition in them. The soil of a mountain ridge top may be rocky, shallow, and alkaline, but the valleys below that ridge may be loamy, deep and acidic. Mountain gardeners will find...

Guidelines and computer programs for the planning and design of land drainage systems
This FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper is intended to serve as a tool for an integrated drainage approach by providing guidelines for: (i) the appropriate identification of drainage problems; (ii) the planning and design of drainage systems; and (iii) the careful integration of technical, environmental and socio-economic factors. The main text of this paper provides critical general information...
Recharge systems for protecting and enhancing groundwater resources

The principle objective behind UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme (IHP) has always been to develop a solid scientific and technological base for a sound management of water resources. Both aspects of quantity and quality of water resources are being addressed in the...

Adoption of terraces in the Peruvian Andes
This thesis will explore the adoption process of soil and water conservation (SWC) practices in order to identify the causes of failing SWC interventions. Are the technologies inappropriate? Are the incentives inappropriate? Should the farmers be compensated permanently for installing and maintaining SWC practices? This thesis will handle these questions within the specific context of the Andes...
The Rules of the Game and the Game of the Rules: Normalization and Resistance in Andean Water Control
This book is about the power of water as much as about the power of water ontologies and water identities, and about the power of the Water Lords’ policy and expert communities, those who are legitimized and endorsed to define and construct ‘the others’ and their problems. Naming and norming, and the legally or scientifically awarded faculty to put water things and users in their place, are basic...
Dry-Farming: Its principles and practices
The aim of this volume is to set forth in a plain way the salient facts of that new branch of agricultural science which is now universally know as dry-farming. The writer has taken special care to deal only with the data obtained by reliable farmers, experiment-station workers, together with the results of this little manual will form a safe and useful guide to those thousands of settlers who...
Call for paper "Transforming the Economy: Sustaining Food, Water, Energy and Justice"

As the Science of Sustainability, Ecological Economics must advance the transformation of the economy to support rather than debilitate the processes that sustain our living planet. Most fundamental to such an economy is its support of basic live support systems like food,...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol 35, No 3, available online and open access

Water issues in Latin America are the focus of 3 papers in this Open Issue.

One shows how water privatization in Chile has dispossessed indigenous people of their water rights, threatening uniquely biodiverse high-altitude wetlands; one reevaluates the FAO 56 PM...

Where’s the snow? It’s at a 500-year low in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains
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4th internartional climate change adaptation conference: Call for abstracts and sessions open!

Conference

Adaptation Futures is the biennial conference of PROVIA (Global Programme of Research on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation). In 2016 the...

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