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Workshop on Action Plan Implementation and Monitoring of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)

29 – 30 June, 2017 Rome, Italy









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    FAO-ISESCO Sub-Regional Workshop on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) for West Africa. 28 -30 June 2016. Marrakesh, Morocco
    Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Initiative
    2016
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    The general objective of this joint workshop is to promote GIAHS dissemination and enhance the capacity of the West African countries to identify and propose their GIAHS sites.
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    Globally Important Agriculture Heritage System (GIAHS) Application : Integrated Agricultural System of Tri Hita Karana – Tri Mandala in Bali, Indonesia
    Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Initiative
    2015
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    Agriculture system in Karangasem District is a sustainable land use system based on Tri Hita-Karana (THK) and Tri Mandala (TM) philosophies of Bali. This agriculture system is globally important, due to: (1) limited land and water resources which are features of island regions, are overcome and enabled agriculture to prosper by using the local wisdoms based on its unique philosophy; and (2) has since sustained food production and livelihoods of a large population about 570 thousand in 2014 over a long period more than ten centuries.
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    Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Proposal: Rice Terraces Systems in Subtropical China
    Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
    2016
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    China has a very long history of construcing terraces that are famous for a wide scope of distribution and a large number of amount. China is a mountainous country where the area of mountains account for about two-thirds of the total area of the territory. Therefore, to make a living, ancient people who lived in the mountainous area created the pattern of terraced fields according to local conditions. For hundreds of years, the terraces built along the mountains have not only improved the local farming conditions but also increased the output of grains. Morever, they are beneficial to the ecology of the mountainous area and have made great contributions to the sustainable development of agriculture in China.

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