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Second Regional Orientation Workshop on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems（GIAHS）for Asia and the Pacific

Year of publication 2014

Pages 20 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Asia-Pacific GIAHS workshop was the second in a series. The first Regional Workshop was conducted in November 2013. FAO acts as the GIAHS Secretariat, which based at FAO’s headquarters in Rome, Italy.

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