For Environment, Democracy and Livelihoods
Alliance of Agriculture for Food/ForestAction Nepal, in collaboration with Centre for Crop Development and Agrobiodiversity Conservation (CCDABC), Uddhyog Badijya Sangh Chitwan and Jilla Prangarik Sangh Chitwan co-organized a seminar entitled “खाना तथा वातावरणीय संकट: विद्यमान अवस्था र समाधानका उपायहरु” on 17 January 2023. The main objective of this event was to discuss and bring the issues of food, public and environmental health, biodiversity into public debate. This event was organized as a side event during Chitwan Mahostav, in the context of National Agrobiodiversity Year 2079. The list of panel members included Dr. Ram Krishna Shrestha (CCDABC), Dr. Aruna Upreti (Public health expert), Prof. Dr. Arjun Kumar Shrestha (Agriculture and Forestry University), and Dr. Krishna Prasad Paudel (AAF/ForestAction). All of the panelist focused on the urgent need of addressing the issues of growing food and environmental crisis.
A group of artists also performed Geeti Natak (An infotainment) portraying the problems and challenges being faced by the farmers.
