The webinar, for the first time ever, gathered GIAHS speakers from various regions around the world share on the challenges faced by GIAHS communities in managing impacts of the COVID-19, as well as discuss the resiliency of GIAHS in such a crisis and explore opportunities for recovery and building back better from COVID-19.
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Building Back Better with Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems from the COVID-19 Pandemic
22 October 2020
22 October 2020
This webinar jointly organized by the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability Operating Unit Ishikawa Kanazawa (UNU-IAS OUIK) and the Food and Agriculture of the United Nations (FAO) will share the challenges faced by GIAHS communities in managing the impacts of COVID-19, as well as discuss on the resiliency of GIAHS in such a crisis and explore opportunities for recovery and building back better from COVID-19.
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One of Japan’s Globally Important Heritage Sites located in the northern mountainous region of the country will be presented as an example of tradition and innovation in the global event Terra Madre, organized by the international organization SlowFood on 11 October at 11 am (GMT+2).
The Takachihogo-Shiibayama Mountainous Agriculture and Forestry System in Japan was designated as GIAHS site by FAO in 2015 thanks to its social-sharing traditional irrigation system, part...
La diversidad biológica es un baluarte de las personas, las sociedades y la economía y es fundamental para combatir la pobreza y el hambre
30 September 2020
30 September 2020
El Sr. Qu Dongyu, Director General de la FAO, dijo hoy que la diversidad biológica sustenta la mayor parte de las actividades económicas del mundo, en particular en el sector agroalimentario, por lo que el ritmo de su erosión debe contrastarse con esfuerzos holísticos, coherentes y colectivos."Su pérdida socava los esfuerzos mundiales para combatir la pobreza y el hambre: si no hay diversidad biológica, no hay diversidad de alimentos", dijo en...