Six farmer’s varieties of neglected and underutilized crop species officially registered in Nepal
By: Niranjan Pudasaini, LI-BIRD, Pokhara The National Seed Board (NSB) approved the registration of six unique landraces on 24th March 2021 under the Schedule D provision of Seed Regulation 2013. Registration of landraces will come into force soon with the formal...
A TRAINING WORKSHOP ON FARMER’S VARIETY REGISTRATION PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT
By: Pradip Thapa BACKGROUND Varietal registration is the fundamental step to enable legal pathways for commercialization of a particular crop variety. Seed Regulation (2013) of Nepal has a dedicated provision (Annex 2-Schedule D) to register local crop landrace,...
Mainstreaming Good Practices of Agrobiodiversity Management for Food and Nutrition Security in Nepal Himalayas
By: Devendra Gauchan The alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT jointly with the Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) and Local Initiatives for Biodiversity Research and Development (LI-BIRD) organized a national level sharing workshop on February 24,...
A training workshop on farmer’s variety registration process
By: Niranjan Pudasaini Varietal registration is the fundamental step to enable legal pathways for seed value chain development and commercialization of particular crop variety. In order to promote access to high quality seeds of local varieties in the formal seed...
Consultation Workshop on Farmer’s Variety Registration and Commercialization
By: Pradip Thapa and Devendra Gauchan Background A consultation workshop on farmers’ variety registration and commercialization was organized on December 30, 2019 at National Genebank, Khumaltar, Lalitpur. The workshop was organized jointly by National Genetic...
12th National Organic Agriculture Fair 2075: Promoting Organic Food and Local Products
By: Pragati Babu Paneru, Saroj Pant and Niranjan Pudasaini For spreading awareness and contributing to the increased recognition and utilization of local, indigenous and organic crops/products, food fair, organic fair, diversity fair etc. organized at local, regional...
Second National Workshop on Community Seed Bank: Seeking Pathways of Sustainability and Mainstreaming
By Niranjan Pudasaini and Rita Gurung Community Seed Banks (CSBs) are emerging as a collective farmers’ institutions for local seed security, conservation of agrobiodiversity and supporting farmers’ livelihood. In order to understand the current status,...
National Food Fair 2074: An Effort to Promote Traditional Foods and Local Products
Promoting traditional foods and recipes along with product diversification and well stated nutritional value information could be the right approach to enhance conservation and use of underutilized traditional crops and ensuring food and nutritional security of the...
Food Fair: A Good Practice To Promote Awareness, Appreciation And Utilization Of Local Crops
By: Subash Gautam, Saroj Pant and Julia Herrle When you are surrounded on all sides by delicious recipes and facing bountiful choices of food items, you know that you are at a food fair. A food fair is a rural multicultural community celebration lasting a day or a few...
Engaging Local Government to Promote Local Crops
Nepal has stepped into federalism with significant transformation in socio-political system. Recently completed local, provincial and federal elections have followed the federal structure of government with significant power and authority delegation to the local...