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A 6 page paper discussing lessons in controlling soil erosion from past cultures (pre-Columbian Mexico, the Inca and Haiti); operational control and physical treatment of the soil. Operational control includes crop selection and lighter tilling to retain soil; physical treatment includes terracing, strip cropping and organic farming. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSenvSoilErCul.rtf
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The Incas of Peru have been found to have used a highly efficient approach to the agricultural activities that sustained their lives, but only after they had suffered extensive erosion
and likely a threat to their very existence because of it. With few exceptions, other cultures have not yielded any indication that they were overly concerned with the effects
of their lives on their immediate environment. Both the shrewdness of the Incas and Native Americans (Norton, Bowannie, Peynetsa, Quandelacy and Siebert, 2002)
and the complacency of other cultures hold lessons for modern agriculture. King Solomon said, "What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will
be done; and there is nothing new under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 1:9). The problems and solutions found by the ancients illustrate the veracity of King Solomons statement, but we
know today that there is indeed something "new under the sun:" never before in the history of Earth have there been so many people on the planet. The Incas
have a lesson for us on that point, as well. Lessons from Past Cultures Mexico When the Spaniards arrived in Mexico in the
16th century, they brought with them plows and livestock. Until the publication of a study in 1993 indicating otherwise, it had been believed that the native Mexicans had been
good stewards of their environment, that it was Spanish influence that "accelerated soil erosion ... Or so environmentalists, who are urging a return to traditional farming techniques in many areas
of the world, like to think" (No Garden of Eden, 1993; p. 23). A study by geographer Sarah L. OHara and colleagues concluded
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