http://www.fao.org/giahs/en/ This presentation was presented during the Joint Meeting of Steering and Scientific Commitee that took place at FAO headquarters 28-29 April 2015. The presentation was made by Prof. Mauro Agnoletti, University of Florence, Italy

1. Vernazza – cinque terre
Prof. Mauro Agnoletti
GESAAF – University of Florence - Italy
mauro.agnoletti@unifi.it
Coordinator
National Register of Historical Rural Landscapes
Ministry of Agriculture Food and Forestry Policies
Rome

2. Better Landscape assessment in GIAHS
- FAO GIAHS description and criteria
- FAO template of GIAHS proposals
- FAO methodological framework

3. Hani - China

4. - “The cultural landscape is fashioned from a natural landscape by a culture
group. Culture is the agent, the natural area the medium, the cultural
landscape the result”.( Carl Sauer 1923)
- the agrarian landscape is “the form that man, in the course and for the
ends of his agricultural productive activities, impresses on the
natural landscape”, (Emilio Sereni 1961)

5. Effects of EU policy on landscape
Origin of European Rural Landscape
Economic
system
Social
system
Environmental
system
landscape as the result of the interrelationships among systems
in space and time
www.landscape.unifi.it

6. Italy: National Observatory of Rural Landscape
- register of historical landscapes and traditional practices (120 sites….)
(criteria and monitoring)
European Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2014-20:
protection of biodiversity and the landscape asset of Europe
1960 production – 1992 environment – 2014 landscape
Landscape in the italian national plan for rural development:
Cultural heritage, competitiveness,environmental quality, quality of life

7. 1° Conference for the implementation of the UNESCO-CBD joint
program on the linkages between cultural and biological diversity
Firenze 8-11 April 2014
Organizations attending: UNESCO- sCBD – ICOMOS – IUCN – UNEP-EU Commission
Florence Declaration
“…The rural territory is mostly a biocultural landscape..”
sCBD: landscape the perspective for the future
(COP 12 – Korea)

8. Monitoring landscape changes
Case study: Cinque terre – Liguria region
1971
2010

9. Accademia dei Georgofili
1977
2007
Castello d’Albola,
Podere Marangole
(Chianti Siena)
The Problem of monitoring

10. Piemonte - Policolture storiche della Valle Uzzone
Catalogo Nazionale dei Paesaggi Rurali Storici
Procedure for GIAHS nomination
• Proposals sent to GIAHS
• Scientific evalutaion of proposal by the SC
• Final decision by the Steering Committee