Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)

Date: 25- 26 April 2024 

The webinar was focus on:

  • The webinar will showcase four GIAHS sites that exemplify long-standing agricultural practices for sustainable agricultural production and agrifood supply chain enhancement, leveraging traditional knowledge and practices. It aims to facilitate the sharing of insights and experiences. 
  • Read the article and find out more details about the webinar: https://www.fao.org/giahs/news/detail-events/en/c/1681705/ 

Date: 13 - 15 December 2023 
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The webinar was focus on:

  • Identify and analyze effective approaches and measures which can assure a balance between agricultural production and agrobiodiversity conservation, highlighting the collaboration among all local stakeholders, and with the support of diverse activities and their synergetic effects; and
  • Discuss the conditions, challenges and key factors for achieving the successful conservation of agrobiodiversity in GIAHS sites.

Webinar: Maximizing the role of Agritourism and Rural Tourism in FAO Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems

Date: 29 March 2023
Time: 1030 - 1230 (CET)

The webinar will highlighted:

On 27 October 2022, the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme celebrated its 20th anniversary. The all-day event was held virtually and attended by Ministers, Ambassadors, Senior Representatives, Scientific Advisory Board members, GIAHS technical experts and the general public. Attendees had the chance to learn more about the prominent features of traditional agricultural systems and the importance to safeguard them. During the celebrations high-level speakers and technical experts acknowledge the achievements of the GIAHS Programme within the last 20 years. 

This year´s International Symposium was organized in a hybrid style to focus on more concrete activities of family famers in GIAHS sites to promote marketing of their agricultural products from GIAHS sites through various methods and approaches.

KEY INFORMATION

When: 13 - 15 December 2023 (9.30 - 17.00 CET)

Read the article and find out more details about the webinar: https://www.fao.org/giahs/news/detail-events/en/c/1696085/ 

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is pleased to announce the webinar Secrets of the tomato - Exploring the cultural roots, health benefits and economic potential of that wonderful little fruit called the tomato, on February 2nd 2022 as part of the initiative “Mediterranean Diet’s Principles for Agenda 2030” co-organized with the Permanent Representation of Italy to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This series of thematic sessions aims to raise awareness about how the Mediterranean Diet contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. 

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The International Conference on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems 2021 was held in the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan to bring together experiences and challenges from Agricultural Heritage Systems from all over the world on the occasion of commemorating the 10th anniversary of Noto's Satoyama and Satoumi, designated as the first Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) in the country.

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The approach of the Alliance for the Mediterranean Diet has potential common goals with those of the FAO- Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems Programme in achieving sustainable agriculture and food systems which reduce the impact on the environment, conserve biodiversity, landscapes, cultures and traditional knowledge.

The approach of the Alliance for the Mediterranean Diet has potential common goals with those of the FAO- Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems Programme in achieving sustainable agriculture and food systems which reduce the impact on the environment, conserve biodiversity, landscapes, cultures and traditional knowledge.

GIAHS site representatives from China, Japan, Peru, Morocco, Spain and Tanzania shared their experiences and challenges on the sustainable use of natural resources as well as the types and functions of their ecosystem services. They explored how GIAHS can contribute to the objectives of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

This webinar jointly organized by the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability Operating Unit Ishikawa Kanazawa (UNU-IAS OUIK) and the Food and Agriculture of the United Nations (FAO) shared the challenges faced by GIAHS communities in managing the impacts of COVID-19, as well as a discussion on the resiliency of GIAHS in such a crisis and the opportunities for recovery and building back better from COVID-19.

This first webinar will be an opportunity for FAO to provideinsights on Nature-Based Solutions in Agriculture with real and time- tested examples coming from Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). The objective of the webinar is to also open a debate on the potentialities of Nature-Based Solutions that can support the agri-food systems of the countries.