Brazil, Spain and Mexico Join the List of Agricultural Heritage of World Importance

Aldo Romero Senator Ana Lilia Rivera Rivera announced that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recognized the Metepantle as an agricultural heritage. At a press conference, the Tlaxcalteca legislator highlighted that the Metepantle is, one of the three important agricultural systems of the country annealed as a [...]

A traditional agroforestry system that cultivates the plant mate grass in Brazil, three sites in China specialized in mussels, white tea and pears, an ancestral system that preserves vital food crops and biodiversity in Mexico, and a system of cultivation in the volcanic landscape of the island of Lanzarote have become the latest additions to the Important Systems of the World Agricultural Heritage (SIPAM).With the new additions, the World Agric…