Baseline:
The Diqing Plateau in Yunnan not only breeds rich biodiversity resources but also is a rare area where multiple ethnic groups, multiple religious beliefs, and customs coexist. This area has been an important place for economic and cultural exchanges between Yunnan, Sichuan, and Tibet since ancient times. It is the main throat entering the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is also the "Tea Horse Road" and "Tibetan-Yi Corridor" in Southwest China. , an important part of the cultural area such as the "cultural belt around the Himalayas", where Tibetan culture, South Asian-Southeast Asian culture, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau minority culture, and Central Plains culture collide and superimpose, forming a pattern of multi-ethnic intermingling and multi-cultural interaction and blending. This area has become one of the areas with the wealthiest national culture and rich historical and cultural heritage in China. The leading ethnic group in this area is Tibetan, accounting for about 34% of the local population.
In the minds of many people, Tibetans are people who live on the plateau and live in nomadism. In fact, in the economic and cultural structure of the Tibetan people, agriculture provides a hotbed for the origin of Tibetan civilization. The agricultural biodiversity technology and farming culture born on this basis constitute an interactive folk knowledge system, which is very important for the livelihood development and development of Tibetan areas. Social stability has had a huge impact. Tibetans' adaptation to the ecological environment of snow-capped mountains and grasslands, alpine valleys, and the knowledge and technology of managing and arranging agricultural biodiversity can be compared with any nation known for its agricultural management. Since only the Tibetans are better at mastering the knowledge and experience of production and life on the plateau, the Tibetans on the Diqing Plateau are still able to maintain their unique national culture and traditions even though they have been continuously influenced and impacted by foreign cultures since ancient times. The production method is unique in the trend of modernization. It is in the plateau, a special area with a fragile ecological environment and scarce resource endowments, that the local Tibetans have created a rich and colorful and self-contained agricultural biodiversity practice system, from agricultural and forestry production, animal husbandry, plant resource utilization and protection, and natural resources. Worship, religious belief, and many other aspects are closely connected with the natural ecosystem. According to the vertical change characteristics of the ecological environment and climate, the Tibetans creatively arranged the three-dimensional layout of the region's agricultural composition, presenting an agricultural ecosystem pattern in which agriculture, animal husbandry, and forestry are interdependent and complement each other. These practical contents not only provide a wide range of ecosystem services for local agricultural production and livelihood development but also become an important material basis for maintaining the social and economic stability of the plateau and then influence the strategies, methods, and effects of local biodiversity protection and ecological environment construction. It is a natural advantage to realize the sustainable development of the plateau.

Main problems:
(1) The Tibetans in the core area of the Three Parallel Rivers have adapted to the ecological environment of high mountains and valleys. They have a unique and rich knowledge system on the management, utilization, and protection of agricultural biodiversity, such as land use, planting technology, seed management, agriculture, forestry, and animal husbandry. Complex management systems, environmental coercion, and the diversity of risk management, etc., but this traditional technical knowledge is rarely systematically studied and recognized by the outside world. Therefore, it is urgent to systematically excavate and organize this traditional technical knowledge to form Repositories, databases, and archives.
(2) In order to promote economic development on the plateau, modern agricultural methods driven by external forces have been continuously introduced to local communities, and the consequences of the transformation of traditional agricultural behavior and livelihood patterns caused by the entry of foreign cultures are still unclear. If this method enters forcefully and fails to integrate well into the core of local Tibetan livelihood culture, it may cause unpredictable ecological and social consequences. It is urgent to evaluate the impact of these behaviors and develop a more effective solution?Ways and means to coordinate the conflict between tradition and modernization.
(3) From the perspective of agricultural biodiversity protection and management, in today's rapid economic and social transformation, the traditional agriculture of plateau Tibetans is facing changes in management techniques and methods, the loss of traditional varieties, the loss of crop genetic diversity, and the loss of traditional knowledge. There are many serious problems, such as the disappearance of these technologies and knowledge, urgently needing to be rescued and protected, and effectively developed to promote the formation of demonstration and promotion models.
(4) Affected by various factors, the local villagers' ability and awareness to participate in community governance are relatively weak, their awareness of the inheritance and protection of traditional knowledge related to agricultural biodiversity is not strong, and they cannot apply traditional technical knowledge to obtain more significant livelihoods ability to value. In addition, young laborers choose to go out to work instead of staying and inheriting the traditional skills left by their ancestors, which makes the local area face serious problems such as the reduction of the scope of traditional knowledge inheritance and the lack of inheritors. It is urgent to carry out capacity building for local people to improve their ability to apply traditional agricultural biodiversity technical knowledge to obtain greater livelihood benefits under the new situation of social development.

Activities:
Activity 1. Community participatory investigation of agricultural biodiversity and ethnic culture: including relevant knowledge of traditional agricultural genetic resources, land use, seed management, technical knowledge system of agricultural planting and cultivation; and agricultural biodiversity conservation and sustainable use; relevant institutional norms, traditional technologies, and production and lifestyle; traditional knowledge of biodiversity-related to life etiquette, religious beliefs, historical legends, sacred mountains, and sacred forests; exploration of the development value of agricultural, forestry and animal husbandry complex ecological landscape systems in alpine and valley areas; traditional medicinal materials Planting and medical culture-related knowledge, etc.
Activity 2.
Project Activity 2. Development and marketing of indigenous agricultural biodiversity products in demonstration sites
Activity 3.
Project activity 3. Excavate technologies and demonstration promotion models that can be applied to the traditional cultural inheritance of ethnic communities and the sustainable management and utilization of agricultural biodiversity resources, and carry out a series of community-based experimental demonstration activities for the utilization and protection of agricultural biodiversity resources.
Activity 4.
Project Activity 4. Community capacity building, community governance, and publicity and education activities:
Activity 5.
Project Activities 5. Carry out various project meetings and exchange activities, including kick-off meetings, exchange meetings, and experience summarization meetings.

Anticipated results:
Establish a database and archive of agricultural biodiversity and traditional knowledge in the Three Parallel Rivers Natural Heritage Site, mainly (not limited to) the three project communities; preserve and publicize the agricultural biodiversity in plateau Tibetan areas by means of images of traditional knowledge.
The income of villagers in the community has increased, and the livelihood of the community has improved.
Local Tibetans and surrounding ethnic minorities have enhanced awareness and understanding of the value of their agricultural biodiversity knowledge, enhanced the endogenous power of the community, increased villagers' income, enhanced women's ability to participate, and protected the community's agricultural biodiversity and traditional culture.
A long-term mechanism for community-based agricultural biodiversity management has been established, the community's awareness of protecting agricultural biodiversity has increased, and traditional community knowledge has been passed on from generation to generation.
Summarize the project results, extract experience, and provide a scalable model for the local and surrounding communities agricultural biodiversity conservation, sustainable use of resources, and community livelihood development.