Skip to main content
Knowledge4Policy
Knowledge for policy

Supporting policy with scientific evidence

We mobilise people and resources to create, curate, make sense of and use knowledge to inform policymaking across Europe.

  • Online resource | 25 May 2023

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)

Global Food and Nutrition Security

The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) represent not only stunning natural landscapes but also agricultural practices that create livelihoods in rural areas while combining biodiversity, resilient ecosystems and tradition and innovation in a unique way.

Since 2005, FAO has designated 74 systems in 24 countries as agricultural heritage sites.