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Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS) proposal - Traditional agricultural system in the Southern Espinhaço Range, Minas Gerais (Brazil)

dec/19

Year of publication 2019

Place of publication Brasília, Brazil ;

Pages 183 p.

Author Commission for the Defense of Sempre-viva Flowers Gatherers’ Communities – (CODECEX)

Publisher Ministery of Agriculture, Livestocck and Supply - Secretariat for Family Agriculture and Cooperativism Brazil ;

Product type Document

Category Other document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The proposed GIAHS site is in central Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the municipalities of Diamantina, Buenópolis and Presidente Kubitschek. This GIAHS occurs in this region and at present 6 localities/communities are organized and proposing to be recognized as a GIAHS site.

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