Plenty of examples here, you could add arable, though it is written into the idea of mountainside terracing

Albanians: An Ethnic History from Prehistoric Times to the Present - Google Books Resultby Edwin E. Jacques - 1995 - History - 730 pages
It is difficult to imagine the manual labor of 40000 youthful volunteers clearing the brush and rocks to terrace the mountainsides of the southwestern ...
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CLAR_A_223074 171..205arable terraced fields created on mountainside, ridges and gullies, consolidating the. tiny fields from 4700 to 2900 in number. Terraces had now become the ...
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by J ZHAO - 2007 - Related articles

Key facts about Bighorn RidgeArable land terraced: approx. 1.0 acres (0.4 ha) ... 1720ft / 520 m is found on top of the rocky mountainside along its eastern boundary. ...
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Footprints in the Soil: People and Ideas in Soil History - Google Books Resultby Benno P. Warkentin, International Union of ... - 2006 - Science - 548 pages

In high-altitude Andean terraces, barley can be grown on frost-prone, gently sloping surfaces, whereas maize is planted on steeper mountainside terraces ...
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Moray crop terraces & Salinas Salt Flats, Urubamba, Cuzco, Peru
... up from below the ground before being routed through miles of little channels and to hundreds of pans created on the mountainside for evaporation. ...
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IMPLICATIONS OF HILL FARMERS' AGRONOMIC PRACTICES IN NEPAL FOR ...
Development (DFID) for the benefit of hillside farmers. The views expressed are not .... The interactive role of fodder trees in hillside landscapes: using ...
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SOME NEW DIRECTIONS
There are fish ponds on the hillside, and crop terraces constructed from recycled tyres. The compost heap is in full view of the buildings – because they ...
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Charmed Life Creations -- Gallery -- Andes-06
Reclaiming some mountainside as crop terraces. The Temple of the Three Windows. The Sun Gate is indiated by the "S". The red dot is the start of the trail ...
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Organically cooked: Cactus figs from Vathi (Παπουτσόσυκα από τη Βάθη)
... in the fields: the mountainside was once bordered by stone fences forming ... The owners of the olive groves and crop terraces marked the borders with ...
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Larry L. Patrick The University of Texas-Austin Geographic ...
Such was the case of dryfield crop terraces of the Yucatan, known to exist since ... ditching, raised fields, hillside indentation, and irrigation farming, ...
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Machu Picchu » American Scientist
The site of the mountainside settlement appears to have been chosen for its .... feature is its concentric arrangement of nearly circular crop terraces, ...
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Itinerary
Follow the path down the hillside into Trevelez and stay overnight in the ... wood and in the afternoon follow a forestry track back down the mountainside, ...
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Vegetated Field Margins in Mexico: Their History, Structure and ...
Traditional management of a hillside agroe- ... Metepantli Crop Terraces of Central Mexico, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, ...
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TECA - Technology for Agriculture
... concern in the Bari lands (upper slope rain-fed crop terraces). .... PRACTICES IN HILLSIDE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN THE ANDEAN VALLEYS OF BOLIVIA ...
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That's how I would translate it.

suerte :)