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INVENTORY OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION

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The six icons background colours are have been chosen to distinguish the six categories into which the techniques have been subdivided.
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Adobe houses	Andalusian agriculture	Animal nutrition and symbiotic and totemic relationships	Architecture for passive cooling	Architecture for saving energy and resources	Autopoietic communities

F8	B19	E4	F17	F19	E17

Barrows and stone arrangements	Bell-like cisterns	Cave-dwellings	Channelling and concentration of rain along the slopes	Channelling and concentration of rain along the slopes - Aguada	Channels and devices for climate control

A12	A13	F1	A10	C15	F16

Circular stone huts	Combined use for water catchment, distillation and condensation	Compost made out of droppings, ash and plants	Conservation and transport of fire	Crop rotation and fallowing	Cultivation by flood recession

F6	A18	C10	F3	C18	C6

Devices for the creation of humus	Digging caves to catch water	Dike of water diversion - Bisse	Dikes and wooden obstacles	Diversion systems on a large scale and use of floods	Domestication and dissemination of palm trees

C8	A8	C16	D1	A20	B16

Dripping of water and percolation in the cave-dwellings	Dry stone walls	Energy and resource catchment	Excavation and drainage system used in mines	Exploitation of open areas in the forests for farming	Family clans

A1	B9	F14	A5	B6	E11

Floating gardens - Chinampa	Formation of protective dunes	Forms of social solidarity	Garden town	Gardens in the craters	Garden-threshing floors

C14	B14	E14	D10	B18	D3

Great caravan nomadism	Great migratory nomadism	Harvesting and primary cultivation of seeds, insects and grubs	Horticulture combined with high-trunk plants	Humidity condensation	Hydraulic devices

E12	E1	B4	B17	A9	A19

Hydrogenesis and hidden precipitations	Improvement of the composition of heavy soils	Integrated cycle of organic wastes	Integrated use of marginal areas (marshlands, karstification and forests)	Integrated use of water catchment, harvesting and distribution	Integration of town and countryside

A14	D9	C17	B22	A22	B21

Integration of urban settlements and landscape	Irrigation by the flowing of streams and water conservation in the soil	Irrigation from the subsoil - Feixe	Land fixed by farming	Large terracing systems - Nabatean and Sabean agriculture	Manure scattering for protection and against evaporation

F18	C5	C13	D5	B11	D7

Masonry for water catchment	Maze-like traps	Megalithic monuments (tholos, trulli, specchie, cisterns and sheepfolds)	Monuments and art	Multipurpose tools	Natural forage and fire to improve regeneration

A16	F5	F11	E3	F2	C2

Nomadic cultivation	Nomadism inside the houses	Obstacles to reduce the wind or deviate the sands	Pit courtyard	Plant cultivation and animal domestication	Plant species to combat erosion

E6	E9	D8	A7	B5	D6

Ploughing and water sprinkling	Pools, ditches and drainage systems	Primary practice of natural fertilization	Production and use of vegetal compost and wastes	Protection of spontaneous vegetation	Protective lunettes (Hedomite agriculture)

D4	A4	C4	C12	B2	B8

Rainwater harvesting in pools and cisterns	Resource management passed on down the generations	Roofed cisterns	Salt harvesting and food conservation	Settlements	Shelters for animals and grain storage

A6	E13	A15	F4	E5	F9

Slash and Burn	Social diversification	Soil creation and replenishment	Soil watering by sprinkling water	Stone dams	Stones within the streams to reduce the flood strength

C3	E7	C7	C1	A3	D2

Sunken dams	Surfaces and stone arrangements	Systems of soil protection, water harvesting and protection against the wind	Systems of water control Catavotre, Orcomeno	Taboo-goods and rules for access to resources	Terraced and fortified olive groves

B12	A2	D11	C11	B1	B10

Terraced gardens	Terracing systems	Torrent-streets	Transhumant nomadism	Transportable gardens	Underground habitats

B20	F12	A21	E10	B3	F13

Underground rooms and hanging gardens	Underground water catchment systems (foggara, qanat, etc.)	Urban layout for microclimate control	Urban specialization	Use of residues to feed animals	Villages with ditches and underground rooms

F15	A17	F20	E18	E8	F7

Wall insulation by means of clay and straw	Walled gardens	Water corporations and hydraulic law	Water intakes and channels to irrigate the slopes	Water intakes and creation of gardens on the sides of the riverbed	Water intakes, embankments and diversion dams

F10	B7-B15	E15	C9	B13	C19

Water societies (alquerias,maihabar and motswelo)	Water storage in cistern-jars	Women's knowledge of plants	Other	Other	Other

E16	A11	E2

INVENTORY OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION

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