Author: Ashwin George
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Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITK) – A practice of developing and using Bamboo Basket (Bhakari) for seed/grain storage
Agriculture in rural part of Nepal is traditional, which depends mainly on Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITK) that has been acquired by people from their ancestors. ITKs are usually followed by the people in day to day life, may it be in agriculture, animal husbandry, seed/grain conservation or storage, medicines, food, etc. It has been a…
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FOOD HERO: SAFIA GEORGE
Safia George from Pakistan is learning to make the most her farmland through the SAFBIN programme, and encouraging other women to do the same. For safia and many other farmers like her, the main source of income in the area is from farming. Lack of resources like water limits the farmers to diversify their farms…
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Duck Farming: Rozina Leads the way
Food and nutritional security is one of the major challenges that the smallholders and other marginalised communities face in the era of global health and environmental problems such as the pandemics and climate change, including biodiversity loss. Smallholder farmers are now adopting practices that reduce the impact of climate change impacts and more importantly, the…
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Smallholder Farmers: At the Heart of Climate Action
Climate change and the multiplying effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have come together to further push smallholder farmers into hunger and poverty. The rise in global average temperatures, as well as increased unpredictability of rainfall, are having profound impacts on agriculture and inevitably affecting smallholder production systems leading to environmental degradation and food insecurity. Moreover,…
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Mushroom Enterprise-A collective effort towards Climate change and farm diversity
Rainfall and temperature variability are becoming more profound in South Asia. Smallholders relying on rainfed agriculture are particularly affected and have to adapt their farming systems accordingly.In order to adapt, SAFBIN smallholder are adopting more sustainable adaptation approaches that protect them from the negative impacts while being cost-effective and widely applicable.In Nepal, mushrooms are popular…
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Safia’s Homestead: A source of additional Income
Safia bibi, a smallholder farmer from village 36/SB of Sargodha district in Pakistan has come a long way. With her son working as daily wage laborer, the only other income comes from selling milk in her village. Motivated by SAFBIN awareness and capacity building sessions on various topics that included farm diversification, green manuring and…
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Small irrigation schemes brings back big hopes for smallholder farmers
“Despite of having big opportunity to cultivate additional crops in winter, we had to leave most of our land fallow because of no irrigation facilities in this area.” said Ms. Geeta Tharu, when SAFBIN visited her field in Beluwa of Bardia distrct. This was not only her and her community’s story but there were more…
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Cluster Level Facilitator (CLF): Adding Value to Smallholder led Value Chain
Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh is famous for its rich natural resources and yet it is one of the most backward areas in the State. Low food productivity, high dependence on wages, increased sale of fuelwood and high incidences of migration are some of the critical issues in the region.Since Cereals like paddy and millet…
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Smallholders access to Land Rights: A step towards SDG 2
Access to land, tenure security and sustainable use of land are essential to achieve food and nutrition security and Zero Hunger (Sustainable Development Goal 2). We cannot achieve food and nutrition security or even for that matter poverty reduction unless the issues related to access to land, tenure security and sustainable use of land are…
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Duck Farming: Rozina Leads the way
Food and nutritional security is one of the major challenges that the smallholders and other marginalised communities face in the era of global health and environmental problems such as the pandemics and climate change, including biodiversity loss. Smallholder farmers are now adopting practices that reduce the impact of climate change impacts and more importantly, the…