Partners in Implementing the GIAHS Activities
The FAO GIAHS Initiative implements dynamic conservation activities through technical cooperation and grants from the Global Environmental Facility, International Fund for Agricultural Development, Government of Germany, in-kind assistance from various international and national institutions, national governments, FAO in-house mechanisms and co-financing from institutions who have stake to GIAHS. FAO collaborates and works with national governments as lead national focal institutions and with the proactive participation of farming communities and other local organizations, such as youth organizations, women’s organizations, research centres and academes, producer groups and cooperatives, and other relevant organizations.
GIAHS networks and strategic partnerships between public and private sector shall be further established to promote inter-institutional, inter-region and inter-country collaboration to enhance and promote revitalization of agricultural heritage systems and its dynamic conservation.
Current partners in countries
UN and other International Partners and Collaborators
- CBD - Secretariat (Convention on Biological Diversity)
- CGIAR (The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research):IPGRI, CYMITT/CIP
- ICCROM (The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property)
- IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development)
- IUCN (The World Conservation Union)
- UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification)
- UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)
- UNEP - Secretariat (United Nations Environment Programme)
- UNESCO (United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
- Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO)
- Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier (IAM)
- United Nations University (UNU)
- University of California at Berkeley
- University of Kent
- University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy)
- Wageningen: International (WI)
- Roman Forum
- Via Campesina (International peasant movement)
- The Christensen Fund (TCF)
- International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGFA)
