The book includes a set of community-based management practices of agricultural biodiversity such as participatory four cell analysis that allows analysis of the amount and distribution of local crop diversity and farmer’s rationale of such distribution; documenting traditional knowledge and dive...
Sthapit, B.
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Shrestha, P.
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Bioversity International
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Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development
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Nepal Agricultural Research Council
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[On-farm management of agricultural biodiversity in Nepal: Good practices - Revised edition 2012]
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On-farm management of agricultural biodiversity in Nepal: Good practices - Revised edition 2012
A seed fair is an activity to create awareness about and appreciate local crop diversity, exchange seed and related knowledge, and celebrate farmers’ efforts to conserve agrobiodiversity. It takes considerable time and effort to organize a seed fair. This brief describes the seed fair organized a...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Shrestha, P.
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Gauchan, D.
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Bhusal, A.
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Gurung, R.
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Pudasaini, N.
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Community Seed Banks Association of Nepal
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[Let us conserve and exchange seeds: celebrating traditional crop diversity of the Nepali lowlands]
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Let us conserve and exchange seeds: celebrating traditional crop diversity of the Nepali lowlands
In Nepal, community seed banks have a long and rich history. Supported in particular by a number of non-government organizations and more recently, also by government agencies, they can be found across the country from the lowland terai to the high hill areas and from east to west. The latest cou...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Shrestha, P.
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Chaudhary, P.
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[Community seed banks in Nepal past, present, future: Proceedings of a National Workshop, 14-15 June 2012, Pokhara, Nepal]
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Community seed banks in Nepal past, present, future: Proceedings of a National Workshop, 14-15 June 2012, Pokhara, Nepal
Although community-level seed-saving initiatives have existed in many countries around the world for about 30 years, they have rarely been the subject of systematic scientific enquiry. Based on a combination of a literature review and field research, we present a novel comprehensive conceptual fr...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Sthapit, B.R.
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Galluzzi, Gea
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Shrestha, P.
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[The multiple functions and services of community seed banks]
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The multiple functions and services of community seed banks
Poudel, D.
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Sthapit, B.R.
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Shrestha, P.
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[An analysis of social seed network and its contribution to on-farm conservation of crop genetic diversity in Nepal]
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An analysis of social seed network and its contribution to on-farm conservation of crop genetic diversity in Nepal