Terraced Landscapes
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...
Open position at the Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, Hamburg, Germany.
The Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, one of 14 specialized institutes of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Federal Research...
Lima, December 20th, 2013. Between 14 May 2014 and 22 May 2014, Perú will host of The Second International Congress on Terraced Landscapes. It seeks to reassess the importance of terraces/platforms in the world as a mechanism of adaptation to climate change contributing to the rural...
