Category: Nepal
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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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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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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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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…