Traditional knowledge and innovation in GIAHS

(Italy), Hybrid Event, 08/09/2024 - 09/09/2024

In this workshop, we explored the role of innovation in supporting traditional practices that conserve agricultural heritage systems.  

Sustainable production and agrifood systems based on GIAHS approaches

Virtual Event, 25/04/2024 - 26/04/2024

The pressing necessity to transform existing agrifood systems, characterized by their substantial environmental challenges—including the excessive use of pesticides and fertilizers, greenhouse gas emissions, water overexploitation, biodiversity depletion, and soil degradation—into systems that are resilient and sustainable is becoming widely recognized on a global scale.

GIAHS and Biodiversity International Workshop 2023

(Italy), Hybrid Event, 13/12/2023 - 15/12/2023

Identify and analyze effective approaches and measures which can assure a balance between agricultural production and agrobiodiversity conservation, highlighting the collaboration among all local stakeholders, and with the support of diverse activities and their synergetic effects; and discuss the conditions, challenges and key factors for achieving the successful conservation of agrobiodiversi...

Second Webinar of the IYM Global Webinar Series ''Historical aspects of millets''

Virtual Event, 11/07/2023

Millets were among the first domesticated plants and remain a traditional staple crop for millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia as the grains can thrive in poor soils, resist crop diseases and pests, and are resilient in adverse climatic conditions.

20th anniversary celebrations of the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme

Virtual Event, 27/04/2022

The 20th anniversary celebrations of the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GAHS) Programme of the Food and Agriculture of the United Nations (FAO) was held virtually on 27 October 20...

20 years of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems

Virtual Event, 27/04/2022

2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the FAO GIAHS Programme. FAO launched the GIAHS initiative at the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg in 2002. Since its inception, the number of agricultural systems recognized as GIAHS has been gradually increasing.

Secrets of the tomato

Virtual Event, 02/02/2022

Mediterranean Diet & Agricultural Heritage - As smooth as oil

(Italy), Hybrid Event, 26/05/2022

The approach of the Alliance for the Mediterranean Diet has potential common goals with those of the FAO- Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems Programme in achieving sustainable agriculture and food systems which reduce the impact on the environment, conserve biodi...

International Symposium on GIAHS and Family Farming

(Japan), Hybrid Event, 28/11/2022 - 30/11/2022

This year´s International Symposium will be organized in a hybrid style to focus on concrete activities implemented by family famers in GIAHS sites, related to the promotion and marketing of their agricultural products through various methods and approaches (e.g., labelling or certification systems, exploration of new supply chain, new demand, niche market, etc.).

Mediterranean Diet & Agricultural Heritage: the flavors of the land

(Italy), Hybrid Event, 28/05/2021

The approach of the Alliance for the Mediterranean Diet has potential common goals with those of the FAO- Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems Programme in achieving sustainable agriculture and food systems which reduce the impact on the environment, conserve biodi...

International Conference on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems 2021

Noto (Japan), Hybrid Event, 25/11/2021 - 27/11/2021

The International Conference on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems 2021 will be held in the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan to bring together experiences and challenges from Agricultural Heritage Systems from all over the world on the occasion of commemorating the 10th anniversary of Noto's Satoyama and Satoumi, designated as the first Globally Important...

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems: an opportunity to restore ecosystems and achieve the SDGs

Virtual Event, 26/01/2021

GIAHS site representatives from China, Japan, Peru, Morocco, Spain and Tanzania shared their experiences and challenges on the sustainable use of natural resources as well as the types and functions of their ecosystem services. They explored how GIAHS can contribute to the objectives of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

Building back better with Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems from the COVID-19 pandemic

Virtual Event, 06/11/2020

The webinar “Building Back Better with Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) from the COVID-19 Pandemic” was jointly organized by the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability Operating Unit Ishikawa Kanazawa (UNU-IAS OUIK) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on November 6, 2020. The webinar, for the first time ...

Hand in Hand with nature: Understanding Nature-Based Solutions in agriculture through GIAHS

Virtual Event, 01/12/2020

The GIAHS-Secretariat is pleased to present its participation in the first webinar of a series on Nature-Based Solutions in Agriculture organized by the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU) the past 1st December 2020.