Putting biomes to work: helping smallholder farmers restore cangahua in Ecuador

Most Andean farmers in Ecuador eke out a living on highly degraded cemented ash Andisols, in Kichwa called, cangahua, meaning «hard, sterile earth». Today, exposed cangahua covers about 200,000 ha of northern Ecuador. Composed of rhyodacite ash, rich in silica and low in alkaline metal oxides, canga...

• Главный автор: Sherwood, Stephen (author)
• Другие авторы: Oyarzun, Pedro (author)
• Формат: article
• Язык: spa; eng
• Опубликовано: 2026
• Предметы: Alfabetismo ecológico; Experimentación dirigida por campesinos; Manejo ecológico de suelos; Mitigación de cambio climático; Ecological literacy; Farmer-led experimentation; Ecological soil management; Climate change mitigation
• Online-ссылка: https://revistadigital.uce.edu.ec/index.php/SIEMBRA/article/view/9624