HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴I guess you mean the one about #Irrigation, #SucaCollos (suka kollus), #WaruWaru, #Camellones, " and #AgriVoltaics?
Know-how from 3 continents combined:
*#SouthAmerica's historic, highly efficient irrigated #agriculture*
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New findings in #Nature and phys.org?
I'm neither an #archeologist, nor an engineer, but assuming that the the peer-reviewed article on phys.org does not omit any central aspects of the study in #Nature, it seems 👉rather narrow-minded in geographic and historic scope.👈
"Culturas hidráulicas de #Moxos"/ #Camellones" / #Sucacollos, / #WaruWaru, the latest...
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-discovery-unique-drainage-irrigation-gave.html
Discovery of a unique drainage and irrigation system that gave way to the 'Neolithic Revolution' in the Amazon
A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce maize throughout the year, according to a discovery by a team of researchers from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and the Department of Prehistory at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, (Spain); the Universities of Exeter, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading and Southampton (UK); the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and Bolivian collaborators.
@SilviaMarton @EngelMichelmann @Korallenherz @joschtl
#Klimakrise und #Klimapolitik, #Wassermanagent
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...Eruption eines #Supervulkans (z.B
der #Yellowstone Caldera) gäbe. 1)
Kurzum, alle, die klar denken können, haben gar keine andere Wahl, als weiter zu machen: vielleicht reicht es ja doch, den einen oder anderen #Kipppunkt des #Klimas zu vermeiden.
Ausserdem kann das richtige Wassermanagement und eine Hochbeet-Anbaumethode (#WaruWaru/ #Camellones) sowie der...
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I agree. A second #GreenRevolution is direly needed. Probably even the only way out to preserve the current societies and reign in the #ClimateCatastrophy.
Systemic thinking and integrated approaches are of the essence.
I had hoped to read about #Agrivoltaics, #WaruWaru and #Camellones. Alas, still none of these terms even appear in the "GLOBAL POLICY REPORT:
The Economics of the Food System Transformation".
Sad.
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Absolutely correct:
"...governments need to engage in building #resilience against environmental shocks and the progressive degradation of the #environment...."
There is much that could've been done for DECADES, some things even for millennia, like using water- and humus-preserving flood-control #agricultural techniques like #WaruWaru (also called #camellones in #Peru):
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109972629386382918
And as to the "new" thing, #Agrivoltaics,...
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As I have learned from this #Oxfam video about "Culturas hidráulicas de #Moxos"* and the "#camellones", the latest research dates the raised-field technology in #SouthAmerica even earlier, to 850 to 1,000 BCE.
Furthermore, this technology was in use in many more regions of #SouthAmerica.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnMUnTYhuzo
In the language of the conquering tribe, #Quechua, the term is #WaruWaru. However, using the term in...
Camellones
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Whereas #WaruWaru (also called #camellones in #Peru) was developed for mountain #agriculture, the author #BeatriceSalinetti, like me, seems to see an application for many arid regions on all continents.
[TO BE CONTINUED in (5/8):
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110003784757750634]
Other Sources:
https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread913772/pg1 (nice intro into #WaruWaru)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/farming-like-the-incas-70263217/ (she incorrectly attributes the technology to the conquering #Incas, who were but a small pastoral tribe until the 12th century)...
