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Participatory plant breeding on the hillside farms of Nepal

Researchers in Nepal are supporting the efforts of mountain farmers to regain control over their lives, with funding from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Since 1998, a research team from Resources Himalaya, a Kathmandu-based non-governmental organization, has been working with 45 men and women farmers from three sites in Nepal's remote Sankhuwasava District to learn how...

Voices for change: Participatory monitoring and evaluation in China
This volume presents a remarkably compelling and frank account of the most recent of a series of actions undertaken over the last decade by scientists in southwest China to integrate the concerns and work of rural men and women into applied research and development to alleviate poverty. These chapters describe and assess the first efforts in China to incorporate participatory monitoring and...
Evaluating capacity development: Experiences from research and development organizations around the world
The book is organized into seven main chapters: Chapter 1 provides essential background information on the project that gave rise to the book, the ECD Project. It introduces the six evaluation studies that formed the core of the ECD Project, and on whose insights this book is based. Chapter 2 discusses basic concepts of organizational capacity, capacity development, and evaluation. It...
Enhancing farmers' marketing capacity and strengthening the local seed system: Action research for the conservation and use of agrobiodiversity in Bara District, Nepal

Bara is one of three sites in the 'In-Situ Crop Conservation' project-a global project implemented in nine countries and coordinated by the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI). The Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) and Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD) have implemented the Nepal component of the project in partnership with...

Comanagement of natural resources: Local learning for poverty reduction
In the past two decades we have seen dramatic developments in the understanding of equitable and sustainable natural resource management. These have been informed and backed by innovation and research, not least that supported by IDRC, Canada's International Development Research Centre. The old ideas of command and control, of blaming poor people for mismanagement of their resources, have been...
Proceedings of the ESPA methodology workshop

The major objectives of the ESPA methodology workshop were:

  • To bring the consortium together for closer interactions and exchanges of ideas
  • To provide an overview of the work that needed to undertaken in order to complete the situation analysis leading to a common understanding of the deliverables and timetable
  • To achieve...
Population of HKH region and adjacent mountain areas in 2007
Due to lack of exact population figure of HKH region, people have been using differing figures. In view of this, an attempt has been made to estimate the population of HKH region of 2007 for ICIMOD. This has been done based on past estimates made by ICIMOD, which although in places estimated, are based on census data. As seen from the Table, there are 210.53 million people living in the...
ESPASSA Regional situation analysis: A situation analysis for India and the Hindu Kush Himalayan region
Since the early 1990s, countries in the South Asian region have been on high economic growth trajectories, but the expected improvements in human development levels have largely been non-commensurate in a number of well-being dimensions. Further, the environmental costs of such high and non-inclusive growth patterns continue to be largely unaccounted for in conventional development planning and...
Tracking gender equity under economic reforms: Continuity and change in south Asia
Research from around the world seems to suggest that one set of indicators of women’s secondary position in society that seems to be more universal, in the sense of cutting across all contexts, is violence against women, or more appropriately perhaps, credible threats of such violence, along with its actual perpetration. In general, research on violence has been more in the nature of being...
Nepal: Discovering diversity in the hills of Nepal
The local cereal varieties found in the upland regions of Nepal show great promise for improving the food supply, but have long been ignored by the formal research system. What if farmers could learn from researchers about plant breeding? And what if the researchers left their laboratories to work alongside the farmers and learn from their indigenous knowledge to develop new varieties? That is...

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