Human activity, Food production

Alto Douro
Wine has been produced by traditional landholders in the Alto Douro region for some 2000 years. Since the 18th century its main product, port wine, has been world famous for its quality.
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First Coffee Plantations
The remains of the 19th and early 20th century coffee plantations in eastern Cuba are unique and eloquent testimony to a form of agricultural exploitation of virgin forest, the traces of which have disappeared elsewhere in the world.
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Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump bears witness to a custom practiced by native people of the North American plains for nearly 6000 years.
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Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion
Saint-Émilion is a small town near Bordeaux that is known for the eponymous wine region that surrounds it.
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Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
The Lavaux is a region in the canton of Vaud which consists of 830 hectares of terraced wineyards. The present vine terraces date from the 11th century and where developed by Benedictine and Cistercian Monasteries.
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Palmeral of Elche
The Palmeral is an oasis-like landscape of date palms. It was constructed during the Arab occupation of this area in Spain over 1000 years ago.
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Pico Island
Pico Island is an island of the Azores. It has a notable wine, the Pico Wine (Vinho do Pico). The Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture has been made UNESCO World Heritage Site because it 'reflects a unique response to viniculture on a small volcanic island and one that has been evolving since the arrival of the first settlers in the 15th century.
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Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
The Rice Terraces of the Cordilleras (on the island of Luzon) ar a cultural landscape developed 2000 years ago by the Ifugao people.
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Tequila
Tequila is the liquor produced from the blue agave around the town of Tequila, western Mexico. Today, the agave culture is seen as part of Mexico's national identity and is known world wide.
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Tokaji Wine Region
Tokaj-Hegyalja is a historic wine region located in present-day Northeastern Hungary. The region consists of 28 named villages and 7,000 hectares of classified vineyards, of which an estimated 5,000 are currently planted.
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Viņales Valley
Viņales Valley is a karstic depression in Cuba, where tobacco and other crops are cultivated on the bottom of the valley, mostly by traditional agriculture techniques.
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