Photos
Flickr Album: Integrated Farming System for Harmonizing People and Cattle in the Mikata District, Japan
03/03/2021
Japan - Integrated Farming System for Harmonizing People and Cattle in the Mikata District
Flickr Album: Hanging gardens from Djebba El Olia, Tunisia
08/09/2020
Perched on the heights of Mount el Gorrâa, the gardens of Djebba el Olia form a unique agroforestry system. At an altitude of 600m, the communities have been able to shape this mountainous landscape to their advantage by integrating agriculture on terraces derived from natural geological formations or by building them out of dry stone.
Flickr Album: Oasis froides du Haut Atlas, Morocco
08/09/2020
In this mountain oasis, the Amazigh people developed their own ingenious and practical solutions for managing natural resources which are still in place today.
Flickr Album: Chinampas Agricultural System in Mexico City
08/09/2020
The chinampas agricultural system is an articulated set of floating artificial islands built in a traditional way based on oral transmission chinampera prevailing culture since Aztecs times.
Flickr Album: Ramli agricultural system in the lagoons of Ghar El Melh, Tunisia
08/09/2020
Ramli, ethymologically on sand, are agricultural practices that consist of growing crops on sandy substrates. These very singular gardens were created in the 17th century by the Andalusian diaspora to cope with the lack of cultivable land and fresh water.
Flickr Album: Grape Production System in Jowzan Valley, Iran
18/08/2020
Grape and grape-based Production System in Jowzan has a long history. This system has provided a better life situation for local people, a distinct opportunity for tourists, and a unique platform to boost rural economy.
Flickr Album: Malaga Raisin Production System in La Axarquía, Spain
17/08/2020
The raisins production in Axarquía has gone through centuries and different civilisations until today changing a few of its characteristics. Indeed, the cultivation of Muscatel grapes in the mountainous areas of Málaga is very important in the agricultural economy of the area as it is developed in areas of steep slopes without any other agricultural alternative.
Flickr Album: The Agricultural System Ancient Olive Trees Territorio Sénia, Spain
17/08/2020
"Territorio Sénia" is located at the meeting point between the areas of the Valencian Community, Catalonia and Aragon. This territory includes 27 municipalities which are linked by their geography, their history, their language and their culture and also have the highest concentration of ancient olive trees in the world.
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Flickr Album: Traditional Gudeuljang Irrigated Rice Terraces in Cheongsando, Republic of Korea
12/08/2020
Between the 16th and the mid-20th centuries, unique rice paddies have been constructed combining soil and water management by re-engineering the natural environment in areas with disadvantageous conditions. The residents have constructed, maintained, and managed Gudeuljangnon and the irrigation systems as a means of livelihood.
Flickr Album: Kunisaki Peninsula Usa Integrated Forestry, Agriculture and Fisheries Systems, Japan
09/08/2020
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.
Flickr Album: Traditional Tea-grass Integrated System in Shizuoka
09/08/2020
For more than 10,000 years, Chagusaba areas have been maintained through human activity. However, the area of the semi-natural grasslands has been reduced with the modernization of agriculture. This disuse has led to a serious and rapid decline in the biodiversity of Chagusaba.
Flickr Album: Ayu of the Nagara River System
06/08/2020
The landscapes of the Nagara River and ayu are not just the pride and joy of the local people, but essential to their daily lives as a source of drinking and irrigation water as well. The locals seek to conserve them by nurturing forests and water sources so that the quality of the water, as well as the habitat for ayu and many other rare species of fish, can be conserved.
Flickr Album: Managing Aso Grasslands for Sustainable Agriculture, Japan
06/08/2020
The Aso Grasslands are located in Aso region of Kumamoto Prefecture, which situates in the middle of the Kyushu Island in Japan. Aso region spreads around active volcanic craters and huge caldera. The Aso volcano has one of the world’s largest caldera stretching 18 km from east to west and 25 km from north to south.
Flickr Album: Qanat-based Saffron Farming System in Gonabad, Iran
05/08/2020
Iran is the largest producer of Saffron in the world and has over 90% Saffron production worldwide.
Flickr Album: Kuttanad Below Sea Level Farming System, India
05/08/2020
The Kuttanad system is a complex mosaic of fragmented agricultural landscapes divided in three structures: wetlands used for paddy activities and fish catching, garden lands used for coconut, tubers and food crops plantation and water areas used as inland fishing and shells. Wetlands are created thanks to the construction of polders with bunds and its dewatering.
Flickr Album: Saffron Heritage of Kashmir
05/08/2020
Saffron is part of the cultural heritage of the Region, associated with the famous Kashmiri cuisine, its medicinal values and the rich cultural heritage of Kashmir. Looking at the social organization, Kashmiri women are behind the whole saffron story being the custodian of the knowledge.
Flickr Album: Floating Garden Agricultural Practices, Bangladesh
15/07/2020
Floating gardens are age-old practice of crop cultivation in the Southern floodplains of Bangladesh.
Flickr Album: Damyang Bamboo Field Agriculture System, Republic of Korea
21/06/2020
The Damyang bamboo fields started over a thousand years ago and signs the very beginning of management and cultivation was bamboo crafts.
Flickr Album: Traditional Tea-grass Integrated System in Shizuoka
11/05/2020
Shexian Dryland Stone Terraced System is a rain-fed agricultural system located on the mountains and developed thank to local communities’ adaptation with the harsh environment.
Flickr Album: Kuancheng Traditional Chestnut Eco-Planting System in Hebei Province, China
17/08/2019
The chestnut, an important nut tree species in the world, falls into four categories by region: European chestnut, American chestnut, Japanese chestnut, and Chinese chestnut. The Chinese chestnut is divided into the northern chestnut and the southern chestnut.