People who have worked to preserve traditional farming and cooking methods worldwide have been awarded prizes in Italy.
In consequence traditional farming lifestyles have become untenable for growing numbers, triggering mass migration to the country's capital, Bamako.
They complained that traditional farming was disrupted and diversity replaced by monoculture.
Chile has not undergone the job-destroying switch from traditional farming to the highly mechanised prairie grain-growing that is typical of the United States or, more recently, parts of Europe.
Labour candidate Elizabeth Hughes said her party would help the constituency by "supporting traditional economies - farming, livestock and tourism".
All the scientific evidence suggests that these are harmless to people and no more harmful to the environment than more traditional methods of farming.
The total resident population is 14, 957 with main activities being forestry and small scale farming, traditional bee keeping and, increasingly, tourism (180, 000 visitors from May to September).
The book and updated figures on Amish population were released ahead of a major international conference on the Amish and technology at Elizabethtown College, located about 20 miles southeast of Harrisburg in Lancaster County, the traditional heartland of Amish farming in the United States.
For now, says the NFU, traditional, small-scale farming still works in rainy, western areas of the country where the climate suits it.
The system is rooted in respect for the territory and biodiversity, and ensures the conservation and development of traditional activities and crafts linked to fishing and farming in the Mediterranean communities which Soria in Spain, Koroni in Greece, Cilento in Italy and Chefchaouen in Morocco are examples.
Traditional Mexican cuisine is a comprehensive cultural model comprising farming, ritual practices, age-old skills, culinary techniques and ancestral community customs and manners.
Many Costa Ricans work in traditional industries, such as bananas, coffee and other sorts of farming.
Researchers addressing the British Association's science festival in Leicester last month said a new directive from Brussels could lead to radical changes in the way agricultural land was managed across Europe, with some types of farming being scaled back or even abandoned in some of their traditional areas.
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