Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) leads the programme Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), which helps identify ways to mitigate threats faced by these systems and their people and enhance the benefits derived from these dynamic systems.

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems recognize remarkable land use systems and landscapes full of life and biodiversity, resilient ecosystems, and valuable cultural heritages managed by farmers, herders, fisherfolk, and forest people. Communities that have preserved and developed complex, diverse, and locally adapted agricultural systems that nowadays provide sustainably many goods and services, food, and livelihood security for millions of people around the world.

The Programme has to date awarded the designation to 67 sites in 22 countries, with 13 additional proposals in queue.

List of GIAHS designees

Incomplete list of GIAHS sites

See also

* List of Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (Japan)

References

External links

List of designated sites

Map of GIAHS sites

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Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems
Organizations established by the United Nations
Agricultural organizations
Heritage organizations
History of agriculture