Linking the agri to the cultural

FAO’s Globally Important Agriculture Heritage Systems (GIAHS) initiative is a potentially really cool way of linking agricultural and cultural heritage. They’ll be having a forum about it in Rome later this month. This will contribute to the development of projects in the following places:

1. the Inca farming systems of the Peruvian Andes
2. the oases of the Maghreb countries
3. the integrated rice-fish system in China
4. the Ifugao rice terraces systems in the Philippines
5. Chiloé Island, one of the world centres of origin of potatoes