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Twenty years of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems

Success stories of dynamic conservation for sustainable rural development










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FAO. 2022. Twenty years of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems – Success stories of dynamic conservation for sustainable rural development. Rome.





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    Conserving the Agrobiodiversity heritage of the Koraput Region, India and Establishment of a Genetic Heritage Park. Format for Proposals of Candidate Systems for the Globally-important Ingenious Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme
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    Koraput region of the state of Orissa in India is known for its ecological wealth coexisting with poverty, generally referred to as the paradox of economic poverty in the midst of genetic prosperity. Koraput is a tribal district; more than 70% of the total population comprises of scheduled tribes. There are as many as 52 tribal groups in this district. The socio-economic indicators in these areas are comparable to the worst in the world with the percentage of people below the poverty line rangi ng from 72% to 83%. The genetic repository of the region is of great significance in the global context. About 79 plant angiosperm species and one gymnosperm are endemic to the region. Despite the genetic richness and poverty in plenty, no significant effort has been undertaken in the region to overcome the prevailing dichotomy between resource richness and rural poverty. The system could well be designed to provide opportunity for developing efficient people centred, pro-nature, pro-poor and pr o-women oriented programmes in the region that could bring in rural prosperity and ensuring a long term biohapinness for the people and the region. The unique features of the system assumes global importance and initiatives need to be in place for local people to be a part of the conservation and, sustainable and equitable use of the bioresources which they have been bestowed with.
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    Qanat Irrigated Agricultural Heritage Systems). Proposal for Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) of Kashan, Isfahan Province Islamic Republic of Iran
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    The most important agricultural systems such as Pomegranate, Pistachio, and Saffron farming systems are irrigated by Qanat. The geographical regions around the Central Desert of Iran which is also one of the most traditional agricultural areas have been using the Qanat technology for providing water for agriculture and human consumption for thousands of years. The Qanat Irrigation technology and related knowledge system have developed in Iran as early as 800 BC and the Kashan region is the land of one of the oldest human habitat in Iran and is also one of the origins of Persian agricultural civilization irrigated by Qanat system.
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    Traditional Farming System in the Dong Van karst Plateau Global Geoplark (DVKPGG) in Viet Nam: A Proposal for Declaration as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS)
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    Pockets of agrobiodiversity-rich, small-scale upland agriculture and forest gardens embedded in the rocky topography of Dong Van Karst Plateau. This type of agriculture has been maintained for hundreds of years by at least 17 ethnic groups in the area. Of ethnic minority people produces special agricultural products such as mint honey, corn wine and buck wheat, whose market value can be further enhanced.

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