A letter was sent to Agriculture Minister and other related stakeholders, on behalf of Food and Sustainable Agriculture Initiative, Forestaction (on 1st September 2013), with the request to make wide review of ADS draft report and bring some changes in it accordingly. Further, as ADS draft report is written in English, it is requested to write it in Nepali language so that majority of Nepalese people/farmers can able to review the draft as well.
District level consultation on issues of Agriculture in Dhunche, Rasuwa organized by ForestAction Nepal and Nepal Agroforestry Foundation on 31 December, 2012
District level consultation on issues of Agriculture in Dhunche, Rasuwa ForestAction Nepal and Nepal Agroforestry Foundation (NAF) jointly organized district level stakeholder consultation workshop in Dhunche, Rasuwa on 31 December 2012. The main aim of the consultation was to discuss on the issues of agriculture policies in the broader context of Nepal and the issues and challenges of the agriculture sector in Rasuwa. This interaction was held between the farmers from villages and district level stakeholders. Approximately 35 participants were present in the workshop including representatives from District Agriculture Development Office, District Development Committee, District Livestock Service Office, farmers from 6 VDCs and some journalists. Mr. Kamal Acharya from NAF welcomed and introduced about the overall program, objectives and introduced each other. The team from ForestAction facilitated the interaction. Sujata Tamang from ForestAction presented on the overall issues of agriculture in Nepal and discussed about the need to promote sustainable agriculture explaining the current problems seen in agriculture sector. Similarly Dipankar Dahal presented on the major causes of declination of agriculture in Nepal. Moreover, Dr. Krishna Paudel discussed about the agriculture policy process, updates on current agriculture development strategy and the responsibilities of the government offices at district level. He encouraged farmers to raise their voice to the service providers and to be part of the policy process. Bhim Bahadur Tamang, farmer from Ramche argued on services provided by DADO of being unable to test the local soil and recommend the appropriate varieties of crops. Another farmer Chayangba Dorje was concerned on problems of wildlife attack to their crops and livestock. Krishna Humagain from DDC tried to defend himself on farmer’s comments by saying that they have limited resource but have tried to provide most of the services. He also complained on the farmers being totally dependent over the outsiders including government services. According to him villagers have also misused the funds though there are enough funds from different sources. Durga Dutta Panthi from DADO assured farmers that they are there to provide services to local farmers and they will try their best to serve them. Overall, the program was able to provide platform for the interaction between local farmers and the government staff. There was good discussion about the input and services from government as well as farmer’s dependency to the fund and outsiders even for possible and small scale works. It’s also noteworthy that district government staffs are also in limited resources and limited decision making power while farmers also are facing various problems in farming both natural and technological difficulties.
Learning Tour on Payment for Ecosystem Services to Gorkha and Chitwan organized for the Local Communities of Sundarijal VDC on 17-19 October, 2011
Call for PhD Research Proposal Climate Change and Rural Institutions
Two days training on Facilitating Skill Development on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation was held on January 17-18 at Community Based Resource Center, Lamatar, and Lalitpur. The objective of the training was to make the community forest leaders capable to deal and facilitate about the climate change issues, forest based climate change adaptation and mitigation, REDD and PES in their respective forest user groups. The training was targeted for community forest leader’s form 11 CFUGs of Lamatar cluster of Lalitpur district. The training was financially supported by the Asia Pacific Network (APN) and co-organized by Sisnery FECOFUN Range Post.
Expert Workshop on REDD+ and Conflict in Nepal. 6 May 2011, Indrani Complex, Baneshwor, organized by ForestAction.
The ongoing project Community Based Forestry and Livelihoods in the Context of Climate Change Adaptation Community is being implemented in four countries: Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, and Bangladesh which is hosted by ForestAction, Nepal. This project is supported by Asia Pacific Network which ends in 2012. The project is in its mid-phase and all field level activities in the partner countries have been accomplished. Currently, the project report drafting is in progress.
A research project inception workshop on “Nepal Community Forestry Program and the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+): Making Community Forestry Pro-Poor Carbon Sequestration Policy” was held on 12 December 2011, Hotel Everest, Baneshwor, organized by ForestAction Nepal in partnership with the Portland State University (PSU), USA,[pdf-embedder url=”https://webpromotionnepal.com/forestaction/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/REDD-PSU-inception-report.pdf” title=”REDD-PSU inception report”]
ForestAction Nepal has recently entered into collaboration with Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and South Asian Institute for Advance Studies (SIAS) to implement a four-year research project on climate change adaptation and meso level institutions. The project is funded by the Danish Government . The project is being undertaken in four countries; Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia and Nepal. The main objective of this project is to improve adaptation to climate change in rural areas through policy development that stimulates innovation among meso-level institutional actors. Three districts namely Lamjung, Dolakha and Rupandehi have been selected as the case study sites. The research findings are expected to help understand the role of local and meso level institutions in climate change adaptation in Nepal and globally.
A knowledge sharing forum meeting on “Understanding Meso-level Institutional Responses to Climate Change” was postpone from 23rd May 2012 due to Banda. It is organized by ForestAction Nepal, Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies (SIAS) in collaboration with Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). The objective of this forum is to provide an opportunity to researchers and practitioners to reflect upon, analyze, share and disseminate their research and experiences. This will also help document innovative responses of local institutions to climate change and theorize the links between meso-level institutions and climate change adaptation.[pdf-embedder url=”https://webpromotionnepal.com/forestaction/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CCRI-LG-meeting-23.05.pdf” title=”CCRI LG meeting 23.05″]
Ban Chautari workshop on Revisiting PA buffer zones: Exploring legal and institutional reforms in buffer zone management, 20-21 October 2011, SapFalcha, Baber Mahal, Lalitpur, organized by ForestAction and CDO