Building on a recent regional workshop in Dehli, India to establish a community of custodian farmers in Asia, national representatives, international specialists and farmers from around Nepal met in Pokhara, Nepal to discuss strategies to strengthen the role of custodian farmers in on-farm conservation.
9 August 2013: Building on a recent regional workshop in New Delhi, India, to establish a community of custodian farmers in Asia, national representatives, international specialists and farmers met in Pokhara, Nepal, to discuss strategies to strengthen the role of custodian farmers in on-farm conservation.
The meeting helped to build relationships among custodian farmers by connecting a group of community-level institutions. It also highlighted the critical role women play in promoting on-farm conservation. At the meeting, government representatives expressed a desire to increase support for on-farm conservation within the existing policy framework. The workshop was supported through the ‘Reinforcing the resilience of poor rural communities in the face of food insecurity, poverty and climate change through on-farm conservation of local agrobiodiversity,’ a 3-year Bioversity International project in Bolivia, India and Nepal.
Bioversity International is a member of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). [Bioversity International Press Release]