Wetland Raised-Field Agriculture and Its Contribution to Sustainability: Ethnoecology of a Present-Day African System and Questions about Pre-Columbian Systems in the American Tropics

Wetland Raised-Field Agriculture and Its Contribution to Sustainability: Ethnoecology of a Present-Day African System and Questions about Pre-Columbian Systems in the American Tropics

One adaptation for farming wetlands is constructing raised fields (RF), i.e., elevated earth structures. Studies of RF agriculture have focused mostly on the vestiges of RF that were cultivated by pre-Columbian populations in the Americas. Ironically, whereas RF agriculture is still practiced nowada...

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Main Authors: Marion Comptour, Sophie Caillon, Leonor Rodrigues, Doyle McKey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-08-01
Series:Sustainability
Subjects:
raised fields
tropical floodplains
wetland agriculture
wetland conservation
pre-Columbian archaeology
historical ecology
Congo basin
multi-activity subsistence system
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/9/3120

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