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These include five major groups of key resource endowments, goods and services and other features of the system:
(1) biodiversity and ecosystem functioning,
(2) landscape and land and water resource management characteristics,
(3) food and livelihood security,
(4) social organisation and culture (incl. customary institutions for agro-ecological management, normative arrangements for resource access and benefit sharing, value systems, rituals)
(5) knowledge systems and farmers technologies. (incl. technologies, associated value systems, knowledge transfer, language and oral traditions, arts, philosophy, cosmovisions)
Optional:
(6) other goods and services generated by the system (incl. ecosystems services, climate adaptation and other environmental benefits of global importance or specific features such as archeological/historic value or contribution to political stability)
For each element a range of sub-indicators will be developed. For instance, indicators can be developed for biodiversity on genetic, intra- and inter species, and endemic diversity, for inter-species dynamics, for ecosystem-diversity and integration, as well as for the taxonomic groups: plants, animal, microbial and ecosystem. Also, knowledge and cultural heritage endowments will be spelled out more concretely by creating specific categories, with indicators to match. The future development of detailed indicators is considered necessary on these characteristics. A proposed sixth category of the criterion has been added to allow for the description of specific additional benefits that may be of global importance.
Indicators for this criterion include:
Food and Livelihood Security: Contribute to food and livelihood security, especially in terms of risk-minimisation, among local communities on marginal lands, in remote locations and on the verge of poverty.
Benefits Maximisation: Maximise economic, social, livelihood and environmental benefits.
Social Cohesion: Promote social cohesion, solidarity and sense of belonging and identity.
Resource endowments and knowledge systems: Possess remarkable natural resource endowments (especially biodiversity) and intrinsic knowledge systems of global benefit.
Social and Cultural Diversity: Represent diverse social and cultural, institutional and economic approaches to management.
Public Goods: Provide global public goods and heritage which needed economic valuation
Traditional Knowledge: Maintain invaluable knowledge and technology about landscapes, genetic resources, human cultures, and social organisation and institutions
Relation to the land: everyday as well as associative values of the landscape and agro-ecosystem for peoples collective and individual survival and livelihood, their identity and spiritual, religious, philosophical life and the artistic expressions thereof.
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