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Let us conserve and exchange seeds: celebrating traditional crop diversity of the Nepali lowlands

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Title Let us conserve and exchange seeds: celebrating traditional crop diversity of the Nepali lowlands
 
Creator Vernooy, Ronnie
Shrestha, P.
Gauchan, D.
Bhusal, A.
Gurung, R.
Pudasaini, N.
Community Seed Banks Association of Nepal
 
Subject seed banks
seeds
farmers
fair trade
biodiversity
 
Description A seed fair is an activity to create awareness about and appreciate local crop diversity, exchange seed and related knowledge, and celebrate farmers’ efforts to conserve agrobiodiversity. It takes considerable time and effort to organize a seed fair. This brief describes the seed fair organized at the Agyauli Community Seedbank, Nawalparasi in the southern region of Nepal.

About 30 members of 10 community seedbanks from the terai (the southern lowland) region of Nepal came together for this. Apart from exchanging seeds of traditional crop varieties, they also shared stories about the socio-cultural, religious, spiritual, nutritional and medicinal values of their varieties. The recent formal registration of the Community Seed Banks Association of Nepal (CSBAN) was also celebrated.
 
Date 2019
2019-07-26T14:32:30Z
2019-07-26T14:32:30Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier Vernooy, R.; Shrestha, P.; Gauchan, D.; Bhusal, A.; Gurung, R.; Pudasaini, N.; and members of the Community Seed Banks Association of Nepal (2019) Let us conserve and exchange seeds: celebrating traditional crop diversity of the Nepali lowlands. Bioversity International, Rome, Italy; LI-BIRD, Pokhara, Nepal;Community Seed Banks Association of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal 6 p. ISBN: 978-92-9255-131-5
978-92-9255-131-5
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/102365
 
Language en
 
Relation https://hdl.handle.net/10568/102366
 
Rights All rights reserved; no re-use allowed
Open Access
 
Format 7 p.
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