The GIAHS – Rice Fish Culture China Project Framework

Abstract

This document presents the Chinese National Project Framework of a global initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) concerning Conservation and Adaptive Management of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS2). China is one of the six pilot countries of this initiative, for which Longxian Village, Qingtian County, with its traditional Rice-Fish agriculture has been selected as a pilot system to develop a methodology for “dynamic conservation” of agricultural herita ge systems.