INVENTORY OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION

PHOTOGRAPHICAL  AND  TYPOLOGICAL  INVENTORY

B15 - WALLED-GARDENS
Olive tree moistened by a dry stone wall similar to the Nabatean teleylat in the quarry of Fantiano in Grottaglie (Apulia).
The site of Beida. Above on the left a large semi-elliptic stone may be distinguished. Now, it is broken into two parts and a bush has partially grown over it but in the past it clearly had a water function.
Gravina of Laterza (Apulia), techniques of humus production, plant protection and moisture harvesting, commonly used all over the Mediterranean since the beginnings of agriculture.
China, dry stone lunettes for the creation of soil and the protection of the slopes.
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