Terrace farming is the practice of cutting ... Smithsonian Magazine writes, "The Andes are some of the tallest, starkest mountains in the world. Yet the Incas, and the civilizations before them ...

The ghost of the Incas’ farming achievements still shadows the Andes. The remnants of ancient terraces appear as lines of green on the mountains. Former irrigation canals carve hollows into the ...

Throughout the world, terrace farming is widely practised on the slopes of mountains to be an important source of food ... has already passed in the glacier-fed rivers of the Tropical Andes, western ...

Prehistoric communities in one part of Peru’s Andes Mountains may have ... Wari period and the spread of terraced cultivation areas may also have spurred maize farming, he suggests.

"We were trying to look at how the traditional agriculture practices of people in the high Andes Mountains will be impacted by climate change so we performed a set of experiments to simulate ...