How agricultural terraces can help to adapt Mediterranean drylands to climate change
Steeply sloped areas where the vegetation cover is especially thin are highly vulnerable to erosion. This is the case of the National Park of Cabo de Gata Nijar in Almeria (South of Spain), where land impoverishment is causing a loss of traditional low-impact agriculture, as agricultural intensification expands. By restoring dry-stone walls known as ‘balates…