On-farm management of agricultural biodiversity in Nepal: good practices
2006
Sthapit, B. (International Plant Genetic Resources Institute-APO(IPGRI-APO). Pokhara (Nepal)) | Shrestha, P. | Upadhyay, M. (eds.)
`This publication is a compilation of good practices of on farm management of agricultural biodiversity in Nepal. These practices are covered under - (1) On-farm conservation of local crop diversity; (2) Measuring on-farm crop diversity; (3) Participatory four-cell analysis (FCA) for local crop diversity; (4) Social seed network for ensuring maintenance of local crop diversity; (5) Multiple approach to community sensitization; (6) Diversity fair: promoting exchange of knowledge and germplasms; (7) Diversity block: assessing and demonstrating local crop diversity; (8) Diversity kits: deploying new diversity to farmers; (9) Community biodiversity register: consolidating community role in management of agricultural biodiversity; (10) Community seed bank: reliable and effective option for agricultural biodiversity conservation; (11) Community biodiversity management: empowering community to manage agricultural biodiversity; (12) Participatory plant breeding - a strategy of enhancing and maintaining local crop diversity; (13) Participatory landrace enhancement: an economic incentive to support on-farm management; (14) Value addition of local crop diversity (15) Traveling seminar: influencing policy (16) Rural poetry journey: an effective approach to sensitize farming community (17) Rural radio programme: an effective tool for reaching unreachable on biodiversity conservation issues (18) Multi-stakeholder partnership approach to on-farm agro-biodiversity management; and (19) Intensive data plot for understanding farmer's decisions on management of agricultural biodiversity on-farm
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