Photos

Flickr Album: Salak Agroforestry System in Karangasem, Bali

18/02/2010

Developed by the indigenous Balinese people using the traditional subak system, it enhances biodiversity, conserves water, sequesters carbon, and supports food security, while preserving cultural heritage and sustaining local livelihoods.

Flickr Album: Cocoa Agroforestry System in Sao Tome and Principe

18/02/2010

The Cocoa Agroforestry System of Sao Tome and Principe, known for its high-quality Amelonado cocoa, combines traditional farming with diverse crops to enhance food security, strengthen the livelihoods of farming families, preserve cultural heritage, and maintain biodiversity.

Flickr Album: Carp pond farming in the Waldviertel region of Lower Austria

18/02/2010

This sustainable practice supports biodiversity, conserves water and preserves cultural heritage through the production of high-quality carp and innovative fish products.

Flickr Album: Noto's Satoyama and Satoumi, Japan

08/05/2009

The peninsula is a microcosm of traditional rural Japan where agricultural systems are integrally linked to mountains, forest activities upstream and coastal marine activities downstream. Holistic approaches to integrated human activities of fishing, farming and forestry have traditionally been practiced and continue to coexist.

Flickr Album: Historical Irrigation System at l'Horta de València, Spain

14/04/2008

L’Horta de Valencia covers a surface of 28km2 including the Historical Huerta and a section of the Albufera National Park. It is formed by a systems of fields irrigated by the Turia river that has maintain its traditional features in a densely populated coastal region. The landscape structure ...

Flickr Album: Qanat Irrigated Agricultural Heritage Systems, Kashan, Iran

24/07/2007

The Qanat Irrigated Agricultural Heritage Systems are uniquely designed, demonstrating a close relationship with nature, culture, and the capacity of the environment that surrounds it and more importantly, the underlying sustainability and productivity principles.

Flickr Album: Traditional Hay milk Farming in the Austrian Alpine Arc, Austria

18/09/2006

AUSTRIA - Sustainable Hay Milk Farming in the Austrian Alpine Arc Alpine Farming

Flickr Album: The subalpine pastures of Andorra, Andorra

18/09/2006

ANDORRA - The subalpine pastures of Andorra

Flickr Album: Koraput Traditional Agriculture, India

10/07/2006

The Koraput region of the state of Odisha in India has a genetic repository which is of great significance in the global context.The system could well be designed to provide opportunities for developing efficient people centred, pro-nature, pro-poor and pro-women oriented programmes that could bring in rural prosperity and ensuring a long term biohapinness for the people and the region.

Flickr Album: Ich Kool: Mayan milpa of the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico

24/07/1992

The Ich Kool Milpa is a highly diversified system relying on the sustainable use of biodiversity where the triad – maize, beans, and squash – found in all milpas, are also accompanied by Lima beans making a distinctive feature.