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,...
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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,...
Concepts & Tools
The project is utilizing and innovating on a variety of participatory tools and approaches for sustainable management of agrobiodiversity in the mountain environments
Mandate Crops
The Local Crop Project focuses its research and promotion work on neglected and underutilized species specifically adapted to high mountain cold environments
Project Sites
The project works in Humla, Jumla, Lamjung and Dolakha, four districts representing the different rainfed regimes of the mountain areas of Nepal spanning from the east to the western Himalayas
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...
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...
Mandate Crops
The Local Crop Project focuses its research and promotion work on neglected and underutilized species specifically adapted to high mountain cold environments
Concepts & Tools
The project is utilizing and innovating on a variety of participatory tools and approaches for sustainable management of agrobiodiversity in the mountain environments
Project Sites
The project works in Humla, Jumla, Lamjung and Dolakha, four districts representing the different rainfed regimes of the mountain areas of Nepal spanning from the east to the western Himalayas