This is the last of three stories on terracing hillsides. To read the first two stories, "Slippery slopes" and "Know your hillside," go to sfgate.com and type in Deborah K. Rich. "Almost all ...

Indigenous people have lived with unpredictable weather for centuries. They did not live by predictions or machines, but by a proper watching of land, water, weather, and seasonal changes, which had ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In southern Ethiopia, the Konso people have maintained a 400-year-old stone terracing system, essential for farming in the region’s semiarid ...