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Ministry of Agricultural Development (MoAD) along with Department of Agriculture and Alliance of Agriculture for Food organized a program on 6 November 2017 with a view to celebrate 37th World Food Day. The major objectives of the program were to honor the best farmers from different parts of the Nepal and to showcase the food items and agricultural products used throughout the country. Hardworking farmers involved in different sectors like livestock production, paddy production, fish farming, organic farming and vegetable farming were awarded during the event. Representing Alliance of Agriculture for Food Dr. Krishna Paudel acknowledged the farmers for their hard work and suggested the stakeholders to rightly address the issues of farmers.

Agricultural products from Jumla, Humla, Dolpa, Bajura, Mugu, Nawalparasi and Kathmandu were displayed in the exhibition. Local products of Karnali region like Proso millet (Chino), foxtail millet (Kaguno), Jumlimarshi rice, beans, apple, wallnuts, amaranthus, handmade knitted woolen items and organic ginger from Nawalparasi were displayed in the stall. Descriptions regarding the name of the product, nutritional and medicinal values of the products were clearly mentioned and were also briefed in detail by the volunteers. The products were observed with great interest by the public.

ForestAction Nepal and Nepal Foresters’ Association jointly organized a policy dialogue on “Forest Tenure Reform in Nepal: What role for implementers?” on 24 November 2017 at Indreni Foodland. The dialogue mainly focused underlining issues particularly on divided roles of different government agencies at the local, provincial and national levels and on the co-existence, collaboration, and cooperation across governance levels and various actors for forest governance. Findings of a survey conducted among forest tenure reform implementers working under the Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation including frontline forestry officials and those working at the national level was shared during the program.

The policy dialogue comprised of two presentations: “Global comparative study on tenure reform implementation” and “Implementers’ perspective on forest tenure reform in Nepal” by Dr. Mani Ram Banjade and Mr. Krishna P Pokharel respectively. The presentations were followed by a plenary discussion which was moderated by Dr. Naya Sharma.

Promotion of Agroforestry for Rural Income Generation, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

Kathmandu, Nepal 27-29 April, 2018

he growing migration and mobility of young, able bodied men and women are having profound effects on land and social relations in Nepal. And yet, much of the policy and public discussion is concerned with the contribution of migration to economic growth, on the one hand, and/or on safeguarding the rights of migrant workers in Nepal and destination countries, on the other. This public event will feature a wide range of ongoing research being carried out by national and international research centers on migration, land and social change in an effort to broaden the debate on governing migration for inclusive development in the country.

16th December 2017, Hotel Himalaya, Kathmandu[pdf-embedder url=”https://webpromotionnepal.com/forestaction/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Gender-migration-1.pdf” title=”Gender migration”]

A book written by Frank Fischer, published by Oxford University Press entitled “Climate Crisis and Democratic Prospect” has presented the work of ForestAction Nepal on critical action research under a chapter “The Community Forest Movement in Nepal as Participatory Governance: Civil Society, Deliberative Politics, and Participatory Expertise”. The abstract can be accessed through the link provided below:

A National Sharing Workshop on ‘Community based adaptive learning in management of conflicts and natural resources in Bangladesh and Nepal (CALCNR)’ was organised by ForestAction Nepal on 31st October 2017 at Alfa-Beta complex.

Workshop focused on sharing overall research approaches and key findings of the entire CALCNR project. Four presentations were made by ForestAction Nepal, FHRC and iDE under the following headings:

• CALCNR – Overall Research Approaches and Findings

• Conflicts and Collaboration around CF: Overview on research sites and methods

• Representing conflict and cooperation through artwork

• Conflicts and Collaboration around CF: Key research findings

From October 3, 2017 to October 6, 2017, a team from Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) headed by Dr. Steven Lawry, Director of Equal opportunities, Gender, Justice and Tenure at CIFOR, visited four community forest enterprises in Chitwan and Nawalparasi districts of Nepal. These visits and subsequent meetings at the four locations were facilitated and organized by Mr. Anukram Adhikary and Mr. Kamal Bhandari of ForestAction Nepal. The purpose of the visit was to gain a better understanding with regard to how forest and land tenure rights devolution triggered investments in forest enterprises in Nepal. Furthermore, with the aim of disseminating Nepal’s unique cases, CIFOR and ForestAction will release four short documentaries highlighting four community forest enterprises that were visited by the end of 2017.

A half day interaction was held with ward members, mayor and deputy mayor at Chhyanath, Rara Municipality, Mugu on 11th September, 2017. The main objective of the training was to impart knowledge on constitutional arrangements; governance structure, roles, responsibilities and rights of the local government, strategies to influence decision making process related to food security, agriculture, land and climate change at different levels. There was active participation of mayor, deputy mayor, chairpersons of all 14 wards and other concerned stakeholders in the interaction. Karishma Gurung presented the concept of chemical and pesticide free agriculture to be incorporated in local agriculture act. Similarly, Krishna P. Paudel presented the detail of constitutional arrangement of governance, roles, key responsibilities and rights of the local government and their functions. Also, they were made aware on assigned roles, responsibilities and rights of the local government in relation to food, agriculture, land and other crosscutting issues. The participating local representatives showed their serious concern on the importance of chemical and pesticide free agriculture for food and need to address it through local government’s agriculture act. Hari Jung Shahi, mayor of the municipality ended the program expressing his interest to work together with Alliance of Agriculture for Food (AAF) for further facilitation on the framing local agriculture act and other agriculture development plans of the municipality.

Community photo exhibition was organized by ForestAction Nepal under the CALCNR extension project at Chispani Community Forestry, Nawalparasi on 21st August 2017. The event covered 50 photographs taken by the community themselves to portray the issue of Natural Resource (NR) conflict between CF users of north and south.

Photo exhibition was based on four different thematic areas:

• Women’s engagement in gathering Natural Resources (Northern CFUG V Southern CFUG);

• Roles and responsibilities of men in NR management;

• Livelihood and Natural Resources variation (Northern CFUG V Southern CFUG)

• Depo and its impact

To reach a wide range of audience, the event was organised during the Adaptive Learning Network (ALN) meeting. Mayor of Bardaghat Municipality, Assistant Forest Officer (AFO), local leaders and CFUG’s from North and south attended the ALN meeting followed by the photo exhibition.

Community photo sharing turned out to be an effective communication tool for sharing the issues faced by the local people and attract the concerns of local leaders and stakeholders. The event itself gained more authenticity as it was choreographed by the representative of the community itself.

‘1st Kalinchowk Chauri Fair’ organized by Kalinchowk Rural Municipality endured to be one of its first kind in Dolakha.The major objective of the fair was sharing the learning’s and relationship between Chauri and various components associated with it. As a technical counselor in natural resources management of the event, ForestAction shared the research finding on conflict between yak herders and community forests. The event was scheduled from 6 to 7 August 2017 and was chaired by Members of Parliament- Ananda Prasad Pokharel, Parbat Gurung and Pashupati Chaulagain. Around 1200 visitors attended the fair over two-days period. Participants were mainly Chauri Herders and visitors from neighboring Rural Municipalities.

The fair was organized to promote local culture and local products, placing the importance of Chauri farming in high Himalayan region of Nepal, through the presentation of indigenous attires and different traditional values of the area, presentation of different kinds of Chauri and yaks and their products & selection of best products of Chauri and yaks. ForestAction’s role was to involve in technical discussion relating to yak (chauri) and forest and its relationship over the time. ForestAction’s team shared general ideas related to the importance of highland grazing system and Chauri with the local stakeholders and participants from the local government. General findings of the ongoing CALCNR project in Suspa-Kshmewati Community Forest was shared with the participants and a brief informal presentation regarding the forest issues and conflicts was made on 7 August 2017 in a group.

ForestAction Nepal along with FECOFUN is organizing a half day workshop on 8 August 2017 at Staff College premises as a part of a nationwide celebration of Community Forestry Day. The major highlight of the workshop will be discussion on issue “Civil Movement in Community Forestry and Future Visioning”.

Participants will be from different NGOs, INGOs and Government Offices like Human Rights Alliance, NTNC, WWF, IUCN,Forest Enterpreneurs, COFSUN, Care Nepal, RDN, DANAR, AECOFUN, ANSAB etc. representing diverse backgrounds.