"The Water Atlas- Traditional knowledge to combact desertification" (english version) 350 pp. 2000 pictures and drawings, from this link: http://lnkd.in/AN5wiE

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Traditional Knowledge like terracced fields, water catchement, soil protection etc. can contribuite to save landscape. We need a new UNESCO convention on landscape that include Traditional Knowledge. I am working with the Unesco to an inventory of all the traditional knowledge of the world principally the water techniques. We are looking for experts that do the inventory and partecipate to the costruction of a world data bank: the Traditional Knowledge World Bank, www.tkwb.org

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  1. Hello Assia and thanks for sharing this very interesting initative. I was wandering: how does it related with the FAO-led Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) initiative? In 2002 FAO started GIAHS with the objective to establish the basis for international recognition, dynamic conservation and adaptive management of a series of agricultural heritage systems. GIAHS is already operating in Peru, Chile, China, Philippines, Tunisia, Algeria, Kenya and Tanzania. You can read more on: http://www.fao.org/nr/giahs/en/

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