Journal of the ITLA networksOpen AccessISSN 2754-7639 (Online)
The International Terraced Landscapes Alliance Journal serves as a forum for the activities of the various terraced landscape networks and reflects the experiences of ITLA members and their local or national networks for the revitalisation of terraced landscapes and their custodians in different parts of the world, on all continents.
Publisher: University of Coventry, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR)
Coventry, United Kingdom, in cooperation with ITLA
October 2026
7 open access articles
A mobile stone workshop was set up for the first time at the vineyard festival in Obernhof on the Lahn, on 6 and 7 June 2026, as part of the Lost Vine Place Lahn project. Using type boxes and templates, children and adults built small retaining walls without…
Pupils from the UNESCO schools in Krems and Melk spend a morning at the historic Red Gate above Spitz, learning the basic moves of dry-stone masonry from the trainers of the Austrian dry-stone wall school. The excursion is organised by the Wachau World…
The Kinderwingert brings children of seven to twelve into the vineyard: each adopts a vine, keeps a journal of it and works through five sessions across the growing season, ending with the harvest and a diploma. The report covers the training course at the…
This account is not only about dry-stone walls. It's about the small-scale community of Averara (Italy) and the people who came together to rebuild centenary dry-stone walls, to maintain them, and to learn from one another while doing so. Through a five-year…
A living wall was built at the Maison Familiale Rurale de Ventavon, in the Durance valley, by the students themselves and over two seasons. Only micro-local materials were used: pebbles from the river, soil from the site and plants of the place. Chambers for…
Three diaries record drystone activities devised for children from three to sixteen, in Cyprus and in Sardinia. The first follows nursery children collaging a terraced olive grove and handling stones in their own yard. The second is a school project in which…
On the terraced Moselle at Lehmen, the Razejunge association keeps a vineyard with a herb garden, lavender terraces and, since 2025, a classroom in the open air. For seventeen years it has worked with the local primary school and for twelve with the daycare…
October 2026
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Frank BÖWINGLOH, Heiner BRODT and Walter OEFFLING
A mobile stone workshop was set up for the first time at the vineyard festival in Obernhof on the Lahn, on 6 and 7 June 2026, as part of the Lost Vine Place Lahn project. Using type boxes and templates, children and adults built small retaining walls without…
Rainer VOGLER
Pupils from the UNESCO schools in Krems and Melk spend a morning at the historic Red Gate above Spitz, learning the basic moves of dry-stone masonry from the trainers of the Austrian dry-stone wall school. The excursion is organised by the Wachau World…
Gerd KNEBEL
The Kinderwingert brings children of seven to twelve into the vineyard: each adopts a vine, keeps a journal of it and works through five sessions across the growing season, ending with the harvest and a diploma. The report covers the training course at the…
Lucia PENNATI
This account is not only about dry-stone walls. It's about the small-scale community of Averara (Italy) and the people who came together to rebuild centenary dry-stone walls, to maintain them, and to learn from one another while doing so. Through a five-year…
Louis CAGIN
A living wall was built at the Maison Familiale Rurale de Ventavon, in the Durance valley, by the students themselves and over two seasons. Only micro-local materials were used: pebbles from the river, soil from the site and plants of the place. Chambers for…
Sevina FLORIDOU
Three diaries record drystone activities devised for children from three to sixteen, in Cyprus and in Sardinia. The first follows nursery children collaging a terraced olive grove and handling stones in their own yard. The second is a school project in which…
Dieter MÖHRING
On the terraced Moselle at Lehmen, the Razejunge association keeps a vineyard with a herb garden, lavender terraces and, since 2025, a classroom in the open air. For seventeen years it has worked with the local primary school and for twelve with the daycare…
October 2025
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Tomaž BERČIČ and Timmi TILLMANN
Describes a collaborative event that united local residents, masons, students, and researchers to restore terraces, share knowledge, and celebrate the living heritage of Vipava Valley.
Sevina FLORIDOU
Explores how the community of Salamiou revitalized its terraced landscapes through workshops, art, and intergenerational learning connecting agriculture, ecology, and culture.
Vassiliki PETROPOULOU PANAYIOTOU
Emphasizes experiential learning through touch, observation, and collaboration, teaching children and volunteers the cultural and ecological significance of drystone walls.
December 2024
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Maruja SALAS and Lidia E. ROMERO MARTÍN
Our dear friend Lučka, an architect and professor of Urban Design at the University of Ljubljana, is present in our lives. Ever since I met her (Maruja, Peruvian anthropologist, ITLA member), at the First International Conference on Terraced Landscapes held…
Raimund RODEWALD
After dry stone walls, another infrastructure of terraced landscapes is in the focus of UNESCO: The submission titled “Traditional Irrigation: Knowledge, Technique, and Organization,” representing seven countries, was presented in March 2022 for consideration…
Sonia SCHMID
The steep terraced side of the Terragnolo valley (Trentino, Italy) is today almost completely reforested. Depopulation, which began with the First World War, resulted in the abandonment of cultivation of terraced fields. By traversing the territory on foot…
December 2021
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Monique GADAIS
The rehabilitation of the terraced site with historic and socio-economic values invites citizens to participate and learn about this particular cultural landscape. The inauguration of the terraced garden in May 2022 gathered local, regional and international…
Maruja SALAS and Cinzia ZONTA
The following text deals with the logic of conversations taken place while visiting the different sites of the project Adopt a Terraced In the River Brenta Valley. The purpose is to surface and exchange impressions, doubts, questions and feelings about the…
Sampoorna BHATTACHARYA, Regan ZINK, Silvia SARAPURA-ESCOBAR and Jorge NOVO
This article highlights the experiences, struggles, sentiments, contributions, and reflections of four diverse women representing four rural Andean communities in Central Peru. Women take on various roles as leaders, innovators, protectors, and knowledge…
Margherita ERMIRIO with Agnese SERRA
This contribution by the TuQuoque Association from Cinque Terre give a chronological panorama of a multifaceted and interwoven cluster of activities regarding the revival of the culture and the artistic dimensions of terraced territories at local, national…
October 2021
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Artemis YIORDAMLI
In the early part of the 20th century, the island of Cyprus in the East Mediterranean, then a British colony, had a mostly agrarian economy to which the whole family contributed its labour during the harvesting seasons (vineyards, carobs, olives, fruits…
Giorgia DE PASQUALE
Women have always had a fundamental role in taking care of the terraced landscape in Amalfi Coast. The ancestral relationship between women and their landscape has ancient origins and it is based on the fact that, while activities at sea, since the times of…
Rocío ROMERO
This text deals with the experience of Griselda Yanque Mamani, a 75-year-old farmer and retired bilingual teacher from a South Andean Aymara community in the Puno region of southern Peru. It focuses on Griselda’s reintegration into rural production, oriented…
December 2020
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Lucija AŽMAN MOMIRSKI, Tessa MATTEINI and Michel PIMBERT
During the Fourth ITLA World Congress on Terraced Landscapes, held on March 21st, 2019, at the Visitor Center in San Sebastián de La Gomera, Spain, a roundtable discussion was held to contribute to reflections on terraced landscapes, focusing on the main…
Gilmar SANTISTEBAN, Juan Víctor BÉJAR and Timmi TILLMANN
In Peru there are currently about one million hectares of terraces of different characteristics that integrate Andean Amazonian territories (Agrorural 2021; Massón 1993). Of these, approximately 40% are in production thanks to the management of the peasant…
Eiji YAMAJI
Rice terraces, Tanada in Japanese, account for 10% of paddy fields in Japan. Due to its location and situation, they are severely deprived and threatened with decline and extinction. The Japanese government supports the Tanada area through subsidy and…
October 2020
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Timmi TILLMANN and Maruja SALAS
Herewith we highlight the growing awareness about the potentials of terraced landscapes emerging in ten years of ITLA (International Terraced Landscapes Alliance) by reviewing the main achievements of a rich and multidimensional exchange of experiences during…
Alain HAYS
This communication will consist of two parts: The first part is about the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces classified as a World Heritage Site (WHS), reminding the importance of the First Terraced Landscapes Conference, in which the author has participated, that led…
