International Short Course on ‘Plant Genetic Resources and Resilient Seed Systems for Sustainable Food Security’
Training Date: 23 October-10 November 2017 Venue: Pokhara, Chitwan, Nawalparasi and Kathmandu, Nepal Loss of plant genetic resources from agriculture production system and impact of climate change has resulted in major concerns about global food and nutrition security. Community Biodiversity Management (CBM) emerged as successful participatory strategy to realize on-farm management of plant… [Read More]
Short Course on Result-based Monitoring and Evaluation (RbM&E)
Introduction Have your organizations truly delivered the promises made to their stakeholders? Have your plans, programs and policies produced the intended results? These are the questions frequently asked by the stakeholders during meetings and workshops. With the advent of globalization, there is also a growing pressure to both the… [Read More]
Facilitating Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships to Foster Sustainable and Inclusive Food Systems
Are you in the challenging position to design, facilitate or participate in complex change partnerships? Are you wondering how best to deal with power dynamics and conflicts? Do you want to create collaborative learning processes and enable effective communication between different actors? The Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSP) course provides the… [Read More]
Short Course on Value Chain Approach and Inclusive Market System Development
Photo: LI-BIRD Photo Bank Background Agriculture in Nepal is evidently transitioning from subsistence agriculture to semi-commercial and commercial agriculture. The farmers are no longer content with agriculture as a ‘way of life’ and subsistence nature of production. Facilitating farmers to transform their agriculture is the need of the time, and… [Read More]
Short Course on Community Seed Bank Management
Nepalgunj, Banke , NepalSeeds are the source of life and the means of survival as they can play an important role in the food security. Both the seeds and farmers, however, are always vulnerable to natural disasters such as drought, floods, earthquakes etc. In a community seed bank, seeds or germplasm of crops… [Read More]
Short Course on Developing Climate-resilient Agriculture System
Baireni, Dhading Kathmandu, NepalBackground Climate change and food insecurity are two intertwined problems for an agrarian society which cannot be addressed in isolation from each other. Several pieces of evidence indicate that climate in Nepal is already changing and the impacts are being widely felt (IPCC 2014; GoN 2011). Given that agriculture is… [Read More]
Short Course on GIS and Its Applications
Background GIS is a computer-based information system for collecting, storing, analyzing, organizing, managing and visualizing geospatial data. It analyzes spatial location and organizes layers of information into visualizations using maps and 3D scenes. It has now become one of the integral components of every scientific study mainly of agriculture, forestry,… [Read More]
This is the week we write
There is something for everyone on our Week of Writing menu. Sign up for one or more workshops or drop in to our free evening Flashcard Sessions. What’s on the menu: (training overview) 1. Get Flow in Your Writing (Featured course for the week) We all want our writing to… [Read More]
International Course on Plant Genetic Resources and Resilient Seed Systems for Sustainable Food Security
Pokhara, NepalWhy resilient seed systems? Increasing stresses on agricultural systems have resulted in an intensification of the use of natural resources for agricultural production. Many have risen concerns on the future of food and nutrition security, especially for smallholder farmers and their communities. The actual seed systems appear not sustainable if… [Read More]
Visual Storytelling Through Photography
Photo: Nabin Baral, © Protected There is an old saying, ‘A picture is worth a thousand words.’ Do you think this is true in a real sense? Many people look at the pictures before reading the texts. This shows the importance of images in any reading materials to convey messages… [Read More]