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Gender, Agrobiodiversity, and Climate Change: A Study of Adaptation Practices in the Nepal Himalayas
Gender is seminal to agrobiodiversity management, and inequities are likely to be exacerbated under a changing climate. Using in-depth interviews with farmers and officials from government and non-government organizations in Nepal, we explore how gender relations are influenced by wider socio-economic changes, and how alterations in gender relations shape responses to climate...
Nepal
2015
杂志文章
Women drive alternative economies in the Himalayas
In the Himalayas, male outmigration and the effects of climate change create challenges for rural women. Many of them develop innovative farming practices based on agroecology, push alternative economies and create niche markets. Women in India, Nepal and China show how agroecology can be a strategy to adapt to changing circumstances, and to drive positive social change.
Young men from even the remotest places in the Himalayan mountains are leaving their homes in search of income opportunities elsewhere. This trend of out-migration has been driven by increased mobility and access to information, in combination with the effects of climate change, including both increased flooding and drought. Drought...
China - India - Nepal
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
杂记
Shifting cultivation, livelihood and food security
New and old challenges for indigenous peoples in Asia
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 13 September 2007. Since then, the importance of the role that indigenous peoples play in economic, social and environmental conservation through traditional sustainable agricultural practices has been gradually recognized. Consistent with the...
Bangladesh - Cambodia - India - Indonesia - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Nepal - Thailand
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
报告
Community Seed Production
Due to this underlying need, FAO, in collaboration with ICRISAT, ICARDA, and CIAT, organized an expert consultation workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in December 2013 on Community Seed Production. The workshop’s objective was to create a roadmap and develop strategies for enhancing effective uptake and implementation of CSP in developing...
Afghanistan - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Ecuador - Ethiopia - India - Malawi - Nepal - Peru - Uganda
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
书籍
Democratising forest business: a compendium of successful locally controlled forest business models
Forests are home to 1.3 billion people, they have to cater to the multiple needs for local goods (access to income, food, clean water, wood energy, construction materials, fertile soils, medicinal and cosmetic products, and recreation) and global goods (climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, hydrological and mineral cycles). Reconciling competing...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Burkina Faso - Cambodia - Ethiopia - Gambia - Guatemala - Indonesia - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Mexico - Nepal - Philippines - Thailand - Viet Nam
2015 - International Institute for Environment and Development
期刊
LEISA India - Rural-urban linkages
More and more people are moving towards urban areas for various reasons. This has also increased the demand for food while putting pressure on scarce resources. Urban life styles and food preferences also influence the type of food grown and the way it is grown to meet the growing urban...
China - India - Japan - Nepal
2015 - AME Foundation
文章
营养源于创新 美味来自废物
就营养不良普遍的情况而言,随着家庭菜园的不断扩大,对许多尼泊尔人来说常年吃上 新鲜蔬菜已成为现实。但是,他们的故事表明家庭菜园的好处不仅仅局限于提高每家每户的 营养。家庭菜园还能帮助赋予妇女权利,保护生物多样性,广义上说,这对提高家庭和社区 营养都很有必要。
Nepal
2014 - Centre for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge
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All Nepal Peasants' Federation
All Nepal Peasants Federation (ANPF) is an umbrella association of entire Nepali peasants fighting against feudalism, imperialism and neo-liberalism. It is fighting for the agrarian reform and peasants rights for last 6 decades since its inception in 1951 AD. In the new context of democratic republic of Nepal with the...
Nepal
2014 - All Nepal Peasants Federation (ANPF)
书籍
Pollinator safety in agriculture
This publication provides guidance on the natural history of wild bees and their potential exposure to pesticides, as part of the GEF supported Project “Conservation and Management of Pollinators for Sustainable Agriculture, through an Ecosystem Approach” implemented in seven countries – Brazil, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan and South Africa....
Brazil - Ghana - India - Kenya - Nepal - Pakistan - South Africa
2014 - FAO
个案研究
Farmers in focus: Nutrition from diversity
The many plants in Laxmi Acharya’s farm means that it is often mistaken for a miniature botanical garden. She needed more food for her family. But with so little land, she chose diversity.
Nepal
2014 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
个案研究
Nutrition from innovation and taste from waste
From a situation of widespread undernutrition, consuming fresh vegetables all year round has now become a reality for many Nepali households thanks to their expanding home gardens. But the stories they tell show that the benefits of home gardens are not limited to improving household nutrition. The gardens also help...
Nepal
2014 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
书籍
Improving diets and nutrition
Food-based approaches
This book discusses the policy, strategic, methodological, technical and programmatic issues associated with food-based approaches, proposes “best practices” for the design, targeting, implementation and evaluation of specific nutrition-sensitive, food-based interventions and for improved methodologies for evaluating their efficacy and cost-effectiveness, and provides practical lessons for advancing nutrition-sensitive food-based approaches for...
Bangladesh - Cambodia - China - Mexico - Nepal - Philippines
2014
书籍
Deep roots
The International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) has uncovered well-grounded resolve to place family farmers as protagonists in addressing a number of challenges we face, from eradicating hunger and poverty to conserving natural resources. Nothing comes closer to the sustainable food production paradigm than family farming. The diverse set of...
Albania - Australia - Brazil - Canada - Chile - China - Costa Rica - Croatia - Finland - France - Hungary - India - Japan - Kenya - Madagascar - Malaysia - Nepal - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - New Zealand - Norway - Philippines - Senegal - Serbia - Slovenia - South Africa - Thailand - Uruguay
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
书籍
Mechanization for rural development
A review of patterns and progress from around the world
Agricultural mechanization is a crucial input to agricultural crop production. It is frequently very capital intensive, compared to other (usually annual) inputs and it has repercussions on the efficiency of all other inputs used in crop production, including seeds, fertilizer, water, and time/labour. It is also much more complex in...
Bangladesh - Brazil - China - India - Nepal
2013
会议录
Enhancing the contribution of small-scale aquaculture to food security, poverty alleviation and socio-economic development
About 70–80 percent of all those actors involved in fish farming worldwide are considered small-scale. The small-scale aquaculture (SSA) sector, is recognized as making an important contribution to food security, poverty alleviation and socio- economic development. However, assessing its contribution in a systematic way has been an uphill task. An...
China - Nepal - Papua New Guinea - Philippines - Thailand - Viet Nam
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
个案研究
Good practices in building innovative rural institutions to increase food security
Case studies
Strong rural organizations like producer groups and cooperatives are crucial to hunger and poverty reduction. They allow small producers toplay a greater role in meeting growing food demand on local, national and international markets, while improving their own economic, social and political opportunities. This thinking connects a series of case...
Benin - Bhutan - Colombia - Egypt - Fiji - Gambia - Israel - Kenya - Nepal - Niger - Philippines - Thailand
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
书籍
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) and Food Security
The concept of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) has emerged as a challenge to the all-too-prevalent tradition of taking the Earth’s natural resources for granted. PES highlights a global continuum, illustrating the relationship between our lifestyles, the demands associated with our production and consumption patterns, and the effects those demands...
Costa Rica - Ecuador - India - Indonesia - Kenya - Nepal - Uganda - Ukraine - United Republic of Tanzania
2011
杂志文章
货架上的食品,市场上的主权
我们的妇女和粮食主权物品收件箱中包含处理当地和区域粮食市场的好几篇文章. 为了给你一个关于种种市场机会意见和妇女所面临的约束, 我们总结了一些用品.
Armenia - Ghana - Mauritania - Nepal
2011 - Centre for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge
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A Journey to Imja Lake: Climate change in the land of the Sherpa
In the Everest region of Nepal, the Sherpa people are already facing the harsh impact of climate change in the Himalayas. Changes in snow and rainfall patterns are affecting food production and communities face an ever present threat of flooding. A Journey to Imja Lake tells this story by taking...
Nepal
2010 - http://minorityrights.org
技术文件
A scientific conceptual framework and strategic principles for the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems Programme from a social-ecological systems perspective
In developing the Scientific Conceptual Framework for the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme, FAO seeks to accomplish the challenging task of integrating perspectives from those sciences that are most directly concerned with conservation and development: ecology, agronomy and forestry, economics, and anthropology. The goal is to scientifically conceptualise...
Ethiopia - Kenya - Nepal - Peru - Uganda
2008
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