This criterion encompasses mainly two dimensions:

1. Representativity of the problematics and of common issues of agricultural heritage systems that need a policy, legal or institutional solution, for instance, in the field of access to resources and legal pluralism and the protection of cultural property and local and indigenous knowledge and benefit sharing.

2. Sustainability benchmarks: Can the system provide benchmarks for the integrated and sustainable management of agricultural systems, for rural development and for in situ conservation of agricultural biodiversity? Are they light houses of sustainable agriculture?

Indicators to be developed.