The 10th East Asia Agricultural Heritage Conference was held in Xinhua, Hunan
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The 10th East Asia Region Conference on Agricultural Heritage was held on the 20th in Xinhua County, Loudi, Hunan Province. Participants included representatives from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, agricultural heritage experts from China and abroad, and representatives of heritage sites in the East Asia region. Discussions focused on the protection, inheritance, and utilization of agricultural heritage.
During the conference, the FAO Representative in China said that it would continue to support China and the East Asia region in the protection and development of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, promoting knowledge sharing, technical exchanges, and mutual learning of experience, so that agricultural heritage can better serve food security, rural revitalization, and climate response.
Representatives from China, Japan, and South Korea also jointly launched an initiative, calling for strengthened overall ecological protection of heritage sites, the preservation of agricultural biodiversity and landscape integrity, while promoting farming culture into education and the public cultural service system, and exploring more responsible tourism models that are more in line with ecological carrying capacity.