The main objectives of the project is to provide technical support to Karnali agriculture and food concern group and other Fastenopfer partners on agricultural issues.
This project aims to explore how smallholders cope with and adapt to environmental, economic and social changes, and how these processes affect the landscape they inhabit. It will also contribute to the growing body of socio-political nuanced understandings of resilience and adaptive capacity.
This is an interdisciplinary research project and will combine ethnographic methodology with the analytical concepts of resilience, risk, adaptive capacity and landesque capital, in order to understand smallholders’ strategies and practices of livelihood security and landscape investments.
This project aims to promote agroecology in Nepal through policy research advocacy, capacity-building and technical support to smallholder farmers.
The main objectives of the project: Building the knowledge base – filling gaps in botanical identification, appearance and characterization, Producing multi-lingual manuals on recognition and control of invasive plants, Informing and filling policy gaps for better management of invasive plants, Raising awareness of local people on identification of invasive plants and their impacts, Providing technical assistance to CFUGs in controlling invasive plants
The primary objective of this project is to analyze the three questions: What impact has been generated by specific types of forest interventions across different policy and governance contexts? Which forest interventions have resulted in more positive impacts and why? Where and under what conditions do forest interventions deliver positive impact?
The main objectives of the project are a) How do small holders perceive and manage ES on their holdings and within the larger surrounding landscape? B) What motivations drive individual and collective action by small holders to maintain or invest in integrating ES management with food production and how might these actions be supported? C) What are the bureaucratic (i) policies, (ii)challenges and (iii)processes that the integration of ES with food production will face and how might they be addressed?