Agroecology is international. Agroecology is the ancestral knowledge of Indigenous peoples, campesinos, the African diaspora, and rural people. Farmers, herders, fishers, gatherers, and foresters all over the world have tended the biodiversity of their regions for centuries to today. These complex traditional knowledge systems are central in agroecology to be protected and restored. These four examples are “Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems” (GIAHS). To learn about more systems around the world, visit http://www.fao.org/giahs/giahsaroundtheworld
Andean Agriculture “Millennia of experience and selection by Indigenous communities in Peru have led to the domestication of a number of endemic species such as potatoes and quinoa. This knowledge includes three main agricultural systems, each one related to their respective altitude: maize crops (2800-3300 m.), potato crops (3,300-3800 m.) and the livestock area with high altitude crops such as quinua, cañihua (3,800-4500 m.). For each altitude, native selected crops are cultivated.”
