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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?


13.What are the advantages of using traditional agricultural knowledge systems?

There are advantages and reasons why traditional agricultural knowledge systems are desirable than any of the modern technologies, as follows:

  • knowledge-based and draws on local resources
  • provides effective alternatives to western know-how
  • mainly qualitative and experiential
  • has an intuitive component
  • holistic
  • spiritually based on a distinct cosmology
  • incorporates a local ethic and social values
  • based on empirical observations and accumulation of facts by trial and error
  • based on data generated by resource users themselves
  • based on long-time data series on one location

Pilot systems

Candidate systems

Other systems