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Flickr Album: Al Ain and Liwa Historical Date Palm Oases, United Arab Emirates
08/09/2011
Al Ain and Liwa historical date palm oases are part of the agricultural heritage of the country. They constitute as globally significant in-situ repositories of date palm genetic resources, and are home to ancient falaj irrigation systems, which bear testimony to human agricultural and technological ingenuity in hard environmental conditions.
Flickr Album: Andean Agriculture, Peru
08/09/2011
Andean agriculture is one of the best examples of the adaptation and knowledge of farmers to their environment for more than 5000 years. Actual presence of indigenous agricultural knowledge includes terraces, ridges fields, local irrigation systems and traditional agricultural tools, crops and livestock spread at different altitudes.
Flickr Album: Ghout Oasis system El Oued, Algeria
08/09/2011
In the desert of Algeria, local communities have had to face dry and hot climatic conditions. Thanks to the groundwater deep into the soil, farmers have succeeded in finding dunes and water management to use and conserve it. This is how they have created the ghout system allowing them to grow food plants and livestock from the 15th century.
Flickr Album: Dong’s Rice Fish Duck System, China
04/08/2011
The Rice-Fish-Duck system has a long history with strong local and folk characteristics in Congjiang county. It is a unique mode of production and land use by Dong people on the basis of long-term exploration under the limited natural condition.
Flickr Album: Rice Fish Culture, China
26/07/2011
In Asia fish farming in wet rice fields has a long history. A Chinese clay plate dating to the Han Dynasty 2000 years ago shows a fish swimming from its pond into a rice field.
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Flickr Album: Nishi-Awa Steep Slope Land Agriculture System, Japan
24/07/2011
Agriculture in this area is characterized by a land management system that utilizes mountain slopes with versatility. It is currently supported by small-scale farmers comprising mainly women and elderly people. Although the area of cultivation per farm is small, a large variety of grains and vegetables are grown.
Flickr Album: Sado’s Satoyama in Harmony with Japanese Crested Ibis, Japan
16/06/2011
Traditional ecological knowledge associated with satoyama is being combined with applications of modern technology and governmental policy to restore the mosaic of ecosystems on which the ibis, a culturally valued bird, depends for its survival while promoting environmentally-sound agricultural practices.
Flickr Album: Diebu Zhagana Agriculture-Forestry-Animal Husbandry Composite System, China
16/06/2011
Traditional ecological knowledge associated with satoyama is being combined with applications of modern technology and governmental policy to restore the mosaic of ecosystems on which the ibis, a culturally valued bird, depends for its survival while promoting environmentally-sound agricultural practices.
Flickr Album: Wannian Traditional Rice Culture, China
02/06/2011
Wannian traditional rice is a remarkable old and prototype variety, firstly grown in Heqiao village during the North and South Dynasty (420 AD - 589 AD). Formerly called “Wuyuanzao”, this rice is now commonly known as “Manggu”.
Flickr Album: Estahban Rainfed Fig Orchards Heritage System, Fars Province
29/04/2011
Fars province is the most important region for rainfed figs in Iran, where more than 75% of cultivars are located in Iran. More than 50 percent of the levels of Fars P a g e | 4 province fig gardens, which contain 17 percent of the world's cultivar, are located in Estahban.
Flickr Album: Shimbwe, Tanzania
01/01/2011
Growing a high diversity of crops and trees but also animals, the agroforestry system is highly integrated to its environment. It also participate to maintain the soil fertility but mainly to regulate the the water flow from the Mt. Kilimanjaro as a water-tower for the region.
Flickr Album: Maasai, Kenya
01/01/2011
In Southern Kenya, Maasai have developed an agro pastoral system for centuries. Despite the scarce water and grazing land availability, Maasai have succeeded in adapting their systems to this area satisfying their needs and evolving with the cities nearby. Strongly linked to wildlife this agro pastoral system is not competing with it but functioning in synergy.
Flickr Album: Maasai, Tanzania
01/01/2011
In Northern Tanzania, Maasai have developed an agro pastoral system for centuries. Despite the scarce water and grazing land availability, Maasai have succeeded in adapting their systems to this area satisfying their needs and evolving with the cities nearby. Strongly linked to wildlife this agro pastoral system is not competing with it but functioning in synergy.
Flickr Album: Hani Rice Terraces, China
11/11/2010
The forest, village, terrace and river compose the typical ecological landscape of the Hani Rice Terraces. The Hani People, their indigenous agricultural technologies, their selection of the settlement site and their traditional customs for environment protection and conservation all show a harmonious relationship between human and nature, and their relationship in the human society as well.
Flickr Album: Rice Terraces in Southern Mountainous and Hilly areas, China
04/06/2010
Jiangxi Chongyi Hakka Terraces. China has a very long history of constructing terraces that are famous for a wide scope of distribution and a large number of amount. China is a mountainous country where the area of mountains account for about two-thirds of the total area of the territory.
Flickr Album: Chiloé Agriculture, Chile
19/02/2010
Traditionally Indigenous communities and farmers of Chiloé cultivated native varieties of potatoes which went from 800 to 1,000, before the agricultural modernization. Indeed, there has been a generalized erosive process of the genetic materials which has resulted in a reduced amount of varieties in the most isolated zones of the archipelago.
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Flickr Album: Andean chakra: an ancestral agricultural system of Kichwas Cotacachi Communities, Ecuador
19/02/2010
The Andean Chakra is an ancestral agricultural system of the Kichwa Indigenous Peoples in the Ecuadorian Andean region. This outstanding system is characterized by the integration and interconnection of climates, ecosystems, agricultural practices and biodiversity at an altitude ranging from 2 500 to 3 400 m in the Cotacachi Mountains.
Flickr Album: Traditional Agricultural System in the Southern Espinhaço Range, Minas Gerais, Brazil
19/02/2010
The local communities have developed unique agricultural system and cultural identity based on their profound understanding of natural cycles and ecosystems, and vast knowledge regarding native flora management, achieving a great harmony with the environment and conservation of the biodiversity.
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Flickr Album: The Amazonian Chakra, a traditional agroforestry system managed by Indigenous communities in Napo province, Ecuador
19/02/2010
The Amazonian Chakra can be defined as a sustainable land-use model in which productive spaces located within the farm are managed by families under an organic and biodiverse approach, valuing ancestral knowledge.