FAQ

1. What does GIAHS stand for and what are GIAHS?
2. When was GIAHS concept formulated?
3. What is the goal and objectives of the GIAHS Initiative?
4. What are the intervention strategies of the GIAHS Initiative?
5. What is dynamic conservation approach?
6. How is GIAHS initiative trying to achieve both its development and sustainability goals in the face of globalization and global climate change/variability?
7. What do we mean by five assets of rural systems?
8. What are the criteria for judging adaptive management and dynamic progress?
9. At the rural community level, what are the factors that are most frequently at the base of the sustainable management of land and natural resources?
10. Why intervene in situations where the people concerned are already practicing ingenious and sustainable land and natural resource management techniques?
11. What kinds of local partners will GIAHS work with?
12. What are good policies for dynamic conservation of GIAHS and sustainable agriculture and rural development?
13. What are the advantages of using traditional agricultural knowledge systems?
14. How are the GIAHS sites and candidate systems chosen?
15. Will GIAHS Initiative work on sites in industrialized countries?

As with most of the programmes run by agencies of the United Nations, GIAHS Initiative collaborates and work with national governments as lead national focal institutions and with proactive participation of the local and national organizations with stake to GIAHS, such as local civil society organizations, traditional authorities, youth organization, women’s organization, research and academes, producer groups and cooperatives, truly representative professional agricultural organizations, and more importantly, the local farming communities. There is no limit as to how many stakeholders or organization the GIAHS Initiative will work. Since it is a Global Partnership Initiative, the programme encourages multi-stakeholder, participatory and bottom up, integrated across sectors and enhances positive externalities and reduces negative externalities.