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Development and protection of rice-fish culture in China: policy options

Globally-important Ingenious Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)

Year of publication 2006

Pages 10p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Category Programme / project report

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The project objective is to recognize and promote multiple values of the rice-fish system for livelihoods, ecological and cultural preservation by evaluating policies, institutions and technological developments that impact on farmers’ practices of rice-fish system, and developing a network of demonstration sites and partners in provinces of Zhejiang and Guizhou, China.

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