International Terraced Landscapes Alliance Journal: Volume 1 Number 2 v.2

ITLA is an alliance of local, national, regional networks with more than 300 members from 35 countries with mountain ranges, where terraces have been invented and constructed for the production of food in optimum conditions – a global heritage of humankind. After three international conferences in Peru (2014), Italy (2016) and in the Canary Islands (2019). ITLA is an alliance of local, national, regional networks and associations. Our guiding principles for the promotion of terrace farming are written in the Padova Manifest, and our activities of organising conferences and local encounters, promoting publications, lobbying for the recognition of terraced landscapes as human heritage, and linking people, researchers, activists, guardians dedicated to terraces are defined in our Action Plan.