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Globally Important Indigenous Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
extent, significance, and implications for development
GIAHS are found throughout the developing world, linked to centers of diversity. Agroecosystems cover more than one quarter of the global land area, reaching about 5 billion hectares. Agroecosystems are ecosystems in which people have deliberately selected crop plants and livestock animals to replace the natural flora and fauna.
Belize - Brazil - Malaysia - Mali - Mexico - Niger - Peru - Portugal - Spain
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Étude de cas
Proposal of candidate system for the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme: Aohan dryland farming system
Aohan Bannery is located in the southeast of Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. It is the interface between China’s ancient farming culture and grassland culture. From 2001 to 2003, carbonized particles of foxtail and broomcorn millet were discovered by archaeologists in the “First Village of China”, Xinglongwa in...
China
2012 - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
ICARDA annual report 2012
Science for better livelihoods in dry areas
The report stresses progress in linking research innovations to results in farmers' fields in a number of areas. These research-for-development initiatives are testing technology and policy packages with farmers in their production situations. For example, in sub-Saharan Africa ICARDA leads the wheat component of the regional initiative on Support to...
Afghanistan - Egypt - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Pakistan - Türkiye
2012 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Étude de cas
Format for Proposals of Candidate Systems for the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme: Hani Rice Terraces System, China
Hani Rice Terraces are located in the Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, which is in the southeast part of Yunnan Province. People of various races, with Hani being the main minority group, has built this spectacular agriculture and nature wonders. The magnificent Hani Terrace System is a masterpiece of...
China
2012 - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
Report on Fisheries Livelihoods Baseline Survey in Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste baseline survey for the Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme, against the five RFLP national level outputs namely co-management, safety at sea and vulnerability reduction, post-harvest and marketing, livelihoods enhancement and diversification and micro-finance services
Timor-Leste
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vidéos
Right to survive: Turtle conservation and fisheries livelihoods
Each year, the eastern coast of India witnesses a truly spectacular occurrence of nature– the arrival en masse of hundreds of thousands of olive ridley turtles in the coastal region of the State of Orissa. Last year, for instance, an estimated 240,000 adult olive ridleys congregated at Rushikulya on the...
India
2011 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article
藏族妇女组织的自主创新:农忙互助组
我在云南迪庆藏族自治州德钦县云岭乡红坡村 作调查的时候,正赶上村里种植玉米和青稞,又 逢当地政府支持村民种植葡萄。村里除了在外打 工的,老弱妇孺都在田地农忙。红坡村每家平均 每家有7亩地,本村地处山区,土地大部分都在山 上,而且每家分配到的田块也不一定靠近农舍, 有的甚至有好几里的路程,这便无形中加重了农 民的劳动强度。
China
2011 - Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge
Article de blog
Community radio and rural communication services in Bangladesh
The FAO project “Enhancing Rural Communication Services for Agricultural Development through Community Rural Radio” encouraged the participation of agricultural stakeholders in Bangladesh at the national, upazila and village level and spearheaded the establishment of Krishi Radio, the first community rural radio of the country.
The project used the principles of Communication for Development and the Participatory Rural...
Bangladesh
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Vidéos
From farmer to planner and back
This video features the story of an agricultural worker from Sikkim (India) who participated in the From Farmer to Planner and Back workshop held in Rome. It documents her experience with gender-responsive participatory planning for small-scale livestock development.
India
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Étude de cas
Maldives and FAO
Achievements and Success Stories
Maldives became a member of FAO in 1971 and was accredited to the FAO Representative’s office in Sri Lanka in 1979. The economy of Maldives has grown rapidly since 1975, making impressive socio-economic progress when measured by improvements in socio-economic indicators and poverty reduction. The government has played a central...
Maldives
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Étude de cas
Noto’s Satoyama and Satoumi
Noto Peninsula has a rich history and culture that dates back over 2100 years. Though life on the peninsula was initially typical of a hunting and gathering society, according to archeological surveys, the roots of today‘s agricultural system can be traced to the Nara Era over 1300 years ago. Over...
Japan
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
Report of the Workshop and symposium on Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries: Towards FAO Guidelines on Marine and Inland Small-Scale Fisheries, 19-21 September 2011, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
The workshop was the first in a series of consultations around the world organized to discuss the Voluntary Guidelines on Small-scale Fisheries (VGSSF) and propose measures, keeping in mind the interests and concerns of small-scale fisheries and fishing communities. The workshop was also a forum to make the role of...
India
2011 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Étude de cas
Sado's satoyama in harmony with Japanese crested ibis
Traversed by two mountain ranges with a broad plain in the middle, the Sado Island located off the shore of Niigata Prefecture is characterized by a variety of landforms and altitudes, which have been ingeniously harnessed to create the satoyama landscape, a dynamic mosaic of various socio-ecological systems comprising secondary...
Japan
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Ouvrage
Women at the frontline of climate change
Gender risks and hopes
Adaptation, vulnerability and resilience of people to climate change depend upon a range of conditions. These vary from their degree of exposure and dependency upon weather patterns for livelihoods and food security, to varying capacities in adaptation, which are influenced by gender, social status, economic poverty, power, access, and control...
2011
Étude de cas
DPR Korea and FAO
Achievements and success stories
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been providing support to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) for well over three decades. FAO is normally the focal point for the United Nation’s Agriculture/Food Security Theme Group and its Sub-group on Sloping Land Management, which are...
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Étude de cas
Traditional Agriculture Systems, Koraput
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...
India
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Comptes rendus de conférence
Forests beneath the grass Proceedings of the Regional Workshop on Advancing the Application of Assisted Natural Regeneration for Effective Low-Cost Restoration
The regional ”Workshop on Advancing the Application of Assisted Natural Regeneration for Effective, Low-Cost Forest Restoration” was organized from 19-22 May 2009, in Bohol, the Philippines, as a concluding activity of the three-year FAO-supported project aimed at promoting ANR in the Philippines. Both the project and the workshop were implemented...
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
Healthy Harvests
The benefits of sustainable agriculture in Africa and Asia
This report argues that smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia can improve agricultural productivity, food security and livelihoods by adopting sustainable approaches that utilize resource-conserving technologies and that draw upon their own knowledge. Many thousands of communities in countries such as India, Cambodia, the Philippines, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe and Kenya...
2011 - Christian Aid
Article du bulletin d’information
Organic Aquaculture in Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia
A project financed by the Common Fund for Commodities1
I n the recently completed CFC/FAO Organic Aquaculture Project, INFOFISH helped fish farmers in the Asia-Pacific region adapt to the new market niche for organic aquaculture products.
Ireland - Malaysia - Myanmar - Thailand
2011
Rapport
Agroecology and Advocacy: Innovations in Asia
The three case studies presented in this report represent successful approaches, both in terms of the techniques they have applied, and because of the active involvement of farmers’ organizations in changing the policies needed to ensure their success. Agroecological systems, which start from the interplay between the natural environment and...
Cambodia - Indonesia - Philippines
2011 - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
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