AGER is a nonprofit cultural association, made up of experts in the fields of agro-environment, landscape, anthropology and architecture, that aims to work for the active defense of the Rural biocultural landscapes through the identification and recognition of the role of farmers and communities in maintaing their balance.

 

AGER’s overriding aim in to protect ethnographic and genetic identity of the landscape considered as bio-cultural communities manifestation, perceived as "living" spaces and areas, with values in itself not only as indistinct agricultural land. These communities have achieved, in many cases over millennia, environmental and social balance, by the integration and mutual cooperation between, agronomic, livestock and forestry  practices and the natural and morphological components of the territory. Bio-cultural landscapes’lands often coincide with areas of high environmental value, biodiversity and information content.

 

Therefore Bio-cultural landscapes can not only be considered international tourism scenarios or landscape plans and eco-museums preferential subjects and nevertheless areas where to expand intensive agriculture, but living rural areas. To this end AGER is offered as services structure to rural communities with two goals:

• identify the areas of bio-cultural landscapes in the world

  
  
• promote with appropriate means those communities and those farmers who help keeping bio-cultural landscapes’ identity