| Title | Historical Irrigation System at l'Horta de València |
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| Introduction | The waterscape has been created since the Islamic times more than 1,200 years ago, as a result of cultural adaptation to climate conditions and site features. The irrigation system contributed to avoid water scarcity and made possible mosaics of fruits and vegetables cultivation in this dry and densely populated costal area. |
| Start date | 2019 |
| Title | Chinampas system in Mexico |
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| Introduction | The chinampas agricultural system is an articulated set of floating artificial islands built in a traditional way based on oral transmission chinampera prevailing culture since Aztecs times. They offer high agricultural productivity and great ecological importance, surrounded by canals and ditches and rows of "ahuejotes" native willow species that performs several functions. |
| Start date | 2018 |
| Title | Al Ain and Liwa Historical Date Palm Oases, United Arab Emirates |
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| Introduction | Agro-silvo-pastoral system of the Leon Mountains has been maintained for centuries, contributing to food security and the livelihoods of local communities. The diversity of land uses with forests (including chestnut groves, beech forests, birches, junipers, oak groves), pastures and areas under cultivation generates a space for coexistence of agriculture, livestock, forestry, gathering, hunting and fishing, giving the area great agro- ecological value. |
| Start date | 2015 |
| Title | Andean Agriculture |
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| Introduction | Andean agriculture has adaptated to the environment for more than 5,000 years. Indigenous agricultural knowledge includes terraces, ridges fields, local irrigation systems, tools and crops/livestock spread at different altitudes. Millennia of experience and selection have led to the domestication of a number of endemic species such as potatoes and quinoa. |
| Start date | 2011 |
| Title | Oases System in Atlas Mountains |
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| Introduction | In the High Atlas Mountains of Maghreb, Morocco, local communities face extreme climatic conditions. Despite scarce water resources, farmers have succeeded in creating adapted cold oases systems by integrating vegetables, cereals and fruits production with pastures for animals through crops rotation and agroforestry techniques, organized with a remarkable water management. |
| Start date | 2011 |
| Title | Traditional Walnut Agricultural System in Tuyserkan, Hamedan Province |
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| Introduction | Tuyserkan is well known in Iran for its walnut orchards, its delicacies as well as its landscapes and historical monuments. Traditional walnut production has been practiced in the region for centuries and is deeply rooted in the social and cultural values system of the local communities. Based on family-farming, the cultivation of walnuts supports the livelihoods of a major part of the households in the area. |
| Start date | 2023 |
| Title | Ghout Oasis system El Oued |
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| Introduction | In the desert of Algeria, the ghout traditional hydro-agricultural system consists in digging into the soil using wind knowledge to plant date palms on top of groundwater resources. The sustainable multilayered system allows cultivation of vegetables and fruit trees under date palms, and also maintains biodiversity of plants, insects and animals. |
| Start date | 2011 |
| Title | Ancient Traditional Gardens of Qazvin Bāghestān |
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| Introduction | The traditional Gardens of Qazvin are a flood-spreading system that dates back to thousands of years ago, when the city of Qazvin developed. Situated in the foothills of the Alborz ranges, the creation of the gardens surrounding the city has protected its inhabitants from floods adapting to and taking advantage of the watershed to produce nuts and local delicacies. |
| Start date | 2023 |
| Title | Hanging gardens from Djebba El Olia |
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| Introduction | Located on the slopes of Jbel el Gorrâa Mountain, the gardens of Djebba el Olia form a unique agroforestry system rich in biodiversity. At an altitude of 600m, farmers have integrated agriculture on terraces derived from natural geological formations or by building them out of dry stone, backed by an efficient irrigation system. |
| Start date | 2020 |
| Title | Estahban Rainfed Fig Orchards Heritage System, Fars Province |
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| Start date | 2023 |
| Title | Qanat-based Saffron Farming System in Gonabad |
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| Introduction | The Saffron Farming System is located in an area with severe water shortages. Saffron does not require large quantities of water and the Qanat irrigation system is a reliable source of water. The system plays a key role in providing food security, sustainable livelihoods, preserving biodiversity and opportunity for tourism. |
| Start date | 2018 |
| Title | Grape Production System in Jowzan Valley |
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| Introduction | The grape production system in Jowzan has long history of at least 800 years. The area has favorable soil, water and climate, and high levels of skill and experience in grape production. These factors also enable high yields, and higher sugar content in grapes and raisins. |
| Start date | 2018 |
| Title | Carp pond farming in the Waldviertel Region |
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| Introduction | Carp pond farming in the Waldviertel region of Lower Austria is a unique aquaculture system with a 900-year history. Using low stocking densities and traditional practices, it maintains a biodiverse pond ecosystem that connects to the surrounding forests. This sustainable practice supports biodiversity, conserves water and preserves cultural heritage through the production of high-quality carp and innovative fish products. |
| Start date | 2024 |
| Title | Traditional Hay milk Farming in the Austrian Alpine Arc |
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| Introduction | The production of hay milk is as old as the keeping of dairy animals in Europe. Throughout the Alpine region, the use of hay has been a key practice for centuries to get ruminants through the vegetation-less cold season, thus ensuring the livelihood of farming families. The landscape basis for hay farming is the permanent grassland of the mountain regions, which is managed in the form of alpine pasture farming as well as fresh grass feeding in summer and hay feeding in winter. |
| Start date | 2023 |
| Title | Integrated Farming System for Harmonizing People and Cattle in the Mikata District |
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| Introduction | Terraced rice paddies have been kept in clean conditions under the system based on the mutually supportive relationship between Tajima cattle farming and rice farming in terraced paddy fields. |
| Start date | 2015 |
| Title | Noto's Satoyama and Satoumi |
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| Introduction | The agricultural system of Noto peninsula is a mosaic of socio-ecological production managed system that are integrally linked to the satoyama (terrestrial-aquatic landscape ecosystems comprising secondary woodlands, plantations, grasslands, farmlands, pasture, irrigation ponds and canals) and satoumi (marine-coastal ecosystems comprising seashore, rocky shore, tidal flats and seaweed/eelgrass beds). |
| Start date | 2011 |
| Title | Gafsa Oases |
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| Introduction | The Gafsa oases is a green area situated in the dry lands of Tunisia. The system of production is based on water management and a complex multi layered system including three levels of plantation. Growing plants has been made possible thanks to the ground water resources and the local communities’ knowledge. |
| Start date | 2011 |
| Title | Malaga Raisin Production System in La Axarquía |
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| Introduction | In the raisins production of La Axarquía (Málaga), traditional, manual and craft technologies are used in the cultivation, harvesting, grape drying process and removal of the grapes from the bunch. It is developed in areas of steep slopes without any other agricultural alternative, and maintains the landscape by preventing erosion and desertification processes. |
| Start date | 2017 |
| Title | Thale Noi wetland buffalo pastoral agro-eco-system |
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| Introduction | The Thale Noi Wetland Buffalo Pastoral Agro-Eco-System is a diversified farming system in which the cultural, socio-economic, and ecological elements of the landscape are the results of the longstanding interactions between humans and buffaloes. Over the centuries, pastoralism has shaped and conserved the biodiversity and landscapes while buffaloes adapted to survive in this environment where the land is flooded for almost five months during the year. |
| Start date | 2022 |
| Title | Ifugao Rice Terraces |
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| Introduction | Over the last century, the Ifugao Rice Terraces had been self-sufficient in food, timber and water. Thanks to an organization of the landscape divided into five components including woodlot and communal forest, swidden farms, rice terraces, settlement areas and water bodies and irrigation systems, this system is an example of adaptation of the local communities to the environment. |
| Start date | 2011 |