• ANSAB has a vision of rural South Asia built on rich biodiversity and prosperous communities. This vision includes rich, healthy and productive ecosystems actively managed and sustainably used by formerly poor local communities. It also features adaptive people and resilient ecosystems able to cope with global climate change.

  • Generate and implement community-based, enterprise-oriented solutions that conserve biodiversity and improve the livelihoods of the poorest of the poor while bolstering national economic development and addressing climate change.

  • ANSAB measures its effectiveness on the ground through a detailed Impact Tracking System (ITS). Specific outcomes are measured in terms of monetary benefits to primary producers and collectors, degree of economic participation in the value chain, and forest area under improved management.

Programs

Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Climate Change

Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Climate Change

This program aims to conserve the rich biodiversity of South Asia, which ranges from tropical forests to alpine meadows. It supports a variety of community-led efforts to manage natural resources and bolster climate change adaptation and mitigation, including: Enterprise-Oriented, Community-Based Forest Management: capacity building of local communities in…

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Pro-Poor Economic Development

Pro-Poor Economic Development

This program aims to create or strengthen environmentally sustainable markets that benefit the poorest of the poor while promoting social equity, justice, and good governance. It supports the entire value chain of targeted natural resource products through a comprehensive range of activities, including: Entrepreneurship Development: organization of individuals…

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Capacity Building and Services

Capacity Building and Services

ANSAB seeks to impart local communities with the knowledge they need to manage the ecosystems on which they heavily depend on a sustainable and inclusive way. As such, it devotes a lot of energy to capacity building in all its projects. More specifically, program activities include: Training: organization…

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Policy, Research and Networking

Policy, Research and Networking

Through its Networking, Policy and Research program, ANSAB works with key stakeholders from grassroots leaders to national government officials to improve the development and implementation of policies related to community forestry and NTFPs. It also draws on the expertise of leading national and international private companies, public agencies,…

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Resources

Market Information System

This section provides information on sustainable, harvesting, domestication, market trend analysis, new product development, and marketing linkages of non timber forest products (NTFPs)/High Value Cash Crops (HVC) between buyers and sellers. Objectives The main objective…

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Publications

ANSAB has published more than 100 publications in the areas of sustainable harvesting of MAPs and NTFPs, biodiversity conservation, and forest-based enterprises development. ANSAB publications are useful resources for development planners, field-based practitioners, and researchers/academia…

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Himalayan plants for people: Sustainable trade for biodiversity and development (Nepali Narration)

Himalayan plants for people: Sustainable trade for biodiversity and development (Nepali Narration)