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Current thinking suggests the following criteria for judging adaptive management and dynamic progress: - A production systems that meet the essential food requirements of the rural families and even produce surpluses to be sold on external markets,
- A high level of livestock and crop diversity for both wild species and, above all, for cultivated species (cultivars and races of domestic animals). This biodiversity must not be judged only by the number of species (quantitative biodiversity) but also by the endemic or rare nature of certain species (qualitative biodiversity).
- Resiliency against climatic risks, this resistance or ability to restore has been acquired with the ingenious and patient work of the farmers concerned. This is the result of continuous knowledge building based on local experience and skills which result to minimized effects of the most severe local climate constraint (droughts, waterlogging of the soil, seasonal crop/livestock infestation, etc);
- Certain flexibility in natural resource management and landscape management systems to allow permanent changes to be made to take into account the economic parameters and the development of local social structures (balance of power between the social groups involved, de-localisation, de-valorisation of socio-culture, large-scale immigration, etc.).
- Agricultural and production systems, one of the characteristics of which is a rich, diversified, pertinent and ingenious set of local knowledge and skills.
GIAHS initiative as an international programme, considers that progress has been made if it sees an improvement in meeting food security requirements, enhanced agricultural biodiversity, greater resilience, maintenance of ecosystems goods and services .
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