| Title | Kunisaki Peninsula Usa Integrated Forestry, Agriculture and Fisheries System |
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| Introduction | The GIAHS in the Kunisaki Peninsula Usa area is a system where forestry and agricultural production are made possible and are sustain by the connected system of Sawtooth Oak forests and multiple interlinked irrigation ponds. |
| Start date | 2013 |
| Title | Xianju Ancient Chinese Waxberry Composite System in Zhejiang Province |
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| Introduction | Xianju has a history of waxberry cultivation dating back more than 1,600 years and is known as one of the original areas of waxberry cultivation. The agricultural system connects waxberries and tea cultivation to chickens and bees’ breeding. Today, the site has accumulated a large number of ancient waxberry germplasm resources with a wide range of varieties. |
| Start date | 2023 |
| Title | Hani Rice Terraces |
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| Introduction | The Hani Terrace System is a masterpiece of the Hani minorities, who have lived in the remarkable landscape for over 1,300 years. They utilize and manage local water resources in a unique, simple, economical and efficient manner. The indigenous agricultural technologies and their traditional customs show a harmonious relationship between human and nature. |
| Start date | 2010 |
| Title | Biwa lake to land integrated system |
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| Introduction | The Biwa lake to land integrated system is centered on traditional inland water fisheries which have developed along with paddy agriculture that provides safe breeding grounds for spawning lake fish. For more than 1,000 years, the fishermen have been using and improving various types of passive fishing methods to catch migrating fish together with adapted social rules and local culture to ensure the sustainability of the natural resources. |
| Start date | 2015 |
| Title | Kuancheng Traditional Chestnut Eco-Planting System in Hebei Province |
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| Introduction | Kuancheng is not only one of the origins of the chestnut tree and one of the first areas in China to cultivate chestnuts, but also one of the core areas for chestnut planting in the north of China. As far back as the Han Dynasty, chestnuts became the most important economic fruit tree that was cultivated in Kuancheng, and a traditional chestnut cultivation system based on a rational distribution of resources such as crops, medicinal materials, and poultry industries was gradually established. |
| Start date | 2023 |
| Title | Tongling White Ginger Plantation System in Anhui Province |
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| Introduction | Tongling people have long cultivated an indigenous ginger species: the white ginger. Based on the difference in characteristics and growing environments between ginger and rice, local communities have developed unique ginger-cultivating practices. The whole system is combined with rice production and many specific cultural features. |
| Start date | 2023 |
| Title | Qingyuan Forest-Mushroom Co-culture System in Zhejiang Province |
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| Introduction | It is an agroforestry system in the northern mountain area of Qingyuan County, focusing on sustainable forest management, development of the mushroom industry and cyclic use of resources. It is the birthplace of the Xianggu (also called shii-take, the scientific name is Lentinus edodes) cultivation technique and forest-mushroom co-culture. |
| Start date | 2022 |
| Title | Qanat Irrigated Agricultural Heritage Systems, Kashan |
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| Introduction | Qanats are underground tunnels following aquifers in surrounding mountain areas to collect water from different layers of earth by relying only on gravity, developed since early 800BC. This system has contributed to food/livelihood security, biodiversity and enrichment of the landscape in the Kashan region which otherwise should have been a desert. |
| Start date | 2014 |
| Title | Anxi Tieguanyin Tea Culture System |
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| Introduction | Tea production in Anxi was first born in the 18th century in southeastern Fujian where the most famous tea is Tieguanyin. Local farmers’ unique traditional practices guarantee the production of exceptional quality tea leaves. These legacies have ensured the long-term stability and sustainability of the ecological systems and communities´ livelihoods. |
| Start date | 2022 |
| Title | Shexian Dryland Stone Terraced System |
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| Introduction | Shexian system is a rain-fed agricultural system located in Hebei, China, dating back to the 13th century, having developed unique knowledge and techniques to construct dryland stone terraces in limestone area in Taihang mountains, which is short of fertile soil and rain. Shexian is well-known for walnut cultivation and Chinese prickly ash. |
| Start date | 2022 |
| Title | Traditional Mulberry System in Xiajin’s Ancient Yellow River Course |
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| Introduction | Traditional Mulberry System is located on the sandy land of the ancient course left by the Yellow River. The resilient mulberry trees, planted to control sandstorms, provides significant ecosystem services which makes it possible to plant crops among the trees. There are over 20,000 mulberry trees which are over 100 years old. |
| Start date | 2018 |
| Title | Zhagana Agriculture-Forestry-Animal Husbandry Composite System |
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| Introduction | The system is located in the boundary of three major landforms and three climatic zones. It is a transitional zone of Tibetan-Chinese culture as well as agriculture and animal husbandry. Farmers adapted to the area and developed knowledge and techniques to utilize the resources of land, forest, grassland and species. |
| Start date | 2017 |
| Title | Jiaxian Traditional Chinese Date Gardens |
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| Introduction | The Jia County has over 1,000 years old history of diverse jujube cultivation, a fruit species native to China. In the dry environment that suffers frequent drought, jujube trees are "life-saving plants" that are also significant in preventing sandstorms and conserving water and soil on the loess plateau, sparsely vegetated. |
| Start date | 2014 |
| Title | Zhejiang Huzhou Mulberry-dyke & Fish-pond System |
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| Introduction | Zhejiang Huzhou Mulberry-dyke & Fish-pond System originated more than 2,500 years ago. It integrates several agricultural production modes working in symbiosis, such as the cultivation of mulberry-dyke trees, silk rearing and fish cultivation. It is based on a very complex irrigation and drainage system, and protects huge biodiversity and complex landscape. |
| Start date | 2017 |
| Title | Xinghua Duotian Agrosystem |
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| Introduction | In the past thousands of years, in order to fight against floods, Xinghua Duotian agrosystem developed a unique water-land utilization method by forming the raised field, and turned water area and wild land into cultivable land. It presents a typical compound agriculture-forestry-aquaculture model including traditional farming practices for watering, fertilizing and seed selection. |
| Start date | 2014 |
| Title | Jasmine and Tea Culture System of Fuzhou City |
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| Introduction | According to historical records, Fuzhou started its plantation of Jasmine at as early as the Western Han Dynasty (206BC- 9AD), and became one of the major areas for tea cultivation. Nowadays, this region has developed a strong knowledge for jasmine tea cultivation and post-harvest processes. |
| Start date | 2014 |
| Title | Pu’er Traditional Tea Agrosystem |
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| Introduction | The Pu'er Tea Agroecosystem of Yunnan province is the world's largest area of tea forest plantations established thousands of years ago, considered the world's provenance of tea trees. The system has typical tea forests and modern tableland tea plantations, rich bio- and agro- diversity, sound landscape features, traditional knowledge systems and rich tea culture. |
| Start date | 2012 |
| Title | Floating Garden Agricultural Practices |
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| Introduction | Floating gardens have developed in parts of Bangladesh most affected by floods and where water remains for a long time. Various plants can be grown on the floating bed made of water hyacinth and other plant residues. The traditional practice and landscape provides numerous social, economic, agricultural and ecological benefits. |
| Start date | 2011 |
| Title | Urban Agricultural Heritage – Xuanhua Grape Garden |
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| Introduction | The Xuanhua district's traditional Vineyard system, a typical example of a traditional Chinese garden agriculture, has over 1,300 years of history. The funnel-shaped designed trellises conserves soil and water, protects the grape vines from frost and strong wind, and provides outstanding advantages of enriching biological diversity, eco-system functions and assuring food safety. |
| Start date | 2013 |
| Title | Koraput Traditional Agriculture |
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| Introduction | The traditional system of Koraput region, mainly consisting of small scale fields integrated to the land forest management, is strongly linked to local traditional communities. From their knowledge and practices, high biodiversity has been conserved through an in-situ conservation and they have sustainably managed the forest preserving endemic species. |
| Start date | 2012 |