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This criterion has five main elements:
(1) Potentially contribute to all project goals (recognition, conservation, and sustainable management),
(2) eco-systems approach (reflect fully the GIAHS concept),
(3) contribute to international conventions: CBD, CCD, FCCC, ITPGR,
(4) build on existing initiatives, policies and experiences,
(5) participatory management / sensitivity to indigenous and community issues.
Indicators include:
International Conventions: Contribute to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD) and the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources (ITPGR).
Incremental Approach: Build on existing agricultural policies and programmes in philosophy, especially in terms of participatory and ecosystem approaches.
Community Empowerment: Empower local people or communities towards participatory involvement.
Respect: Respect for and sensitivity to individual and collective human rights and rights over traditional knowledge of indigenous and local communities.
Decentralisation: Represent decentralised systems of functioning, decision-making and management.
Ecosystems Approach: Promote an ecosystems approach to traditional agricultural systems management at appropriate scales.
Programmatic Approach: Be developed through a programmatic approach, with Phase I developing and testing methods at a limited number of pilot sites, and Phase II building a world-wide consortium of globally-important ingenious agricultural heritage sites.
Value-added: Add value for global benefits through global heritage recognition, such as labelling, and World Heritage and Conservation classification.
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