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Understanding how new concepts such as Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), REDD+, and the evolving global carbon markets can be incorporated into conservation and poverty alleviation strategies have been ANSAB’s recent major goals. ANSAB has, in partnership with the International…

Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources (ANSAB) organized the 36th sharing meeting of Nepal NTFP Network (NNN) on March 15, 2014 with the following agendas: Major agenda • Presentation and discussion on Prioritizing NTFP enterprises & support options that deliver integrated, intensified and climate smart land use…

ANSAB in partnership with the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED) and the Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations (FAO) organized the third Forest Connect International Workshop from February 12-15, 2013 in Kathmandu Nepal. A total of 30 individuals and institutions from 19 countries participated…

The farm production system in Nepal is highly integrated and interlinked, and is characterized by subsistence farming. The majority of the farming communities have extremely small landholdings of less than 0.5 ha. Farming in Nepal has always been based on production techniques that are healthy and promote healthy…

Bio-Briquettes are a promising source of alternative energy with a proven record of their effectiveness to increase earnings for the poor, reduce health risks for women and children, maintain carbon pool in forests, and reduce the propagation of invasive alien species. In Nepal, briquettes are produced at smallholder…

An interaction program on “Growing Energy Crisis and Biomass Energy” was organised by ANSAB in collaboration with Hipat, an agriculture monthly magazine, on November 12, 2012 at Kathmandu involving the Secretary of Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology; Joint Secretary of National Planning Commission; Deputy Director of Alternative…

The Himalayan Times on November 12, 2012 writes on the case of the ANSAB supported briquette industries in Sindhupalchowk and Dolakha districts, in making the village women self-reliant. The news reads as follows: HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE KATHMANDU: People willing to learn lessons on entrepreneurship can learn a lot…

ANSAB worked with the Yale University as a local partner to organize Yale Himalaya Initiative (YHI) consultation workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal, on August 12, 2012. The daylong event brought Yale faculty together with scholars and professionals from across the Himalaya region to share ideas and develop directions for…

On July 18, 2012, three watersheds under the REDD+ pilot project in Nepal received a seed grant of US $95,000 as carbon payments for their contributions to sustainable conservation and management of forests. Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, Mr. Resham Bahadur Dangi handed…

Value Chain Experts from ANSAB presented on the preliminary findings of the value chain and baseline studies of the select four products – Turmeric, Off-season Vegetables, Goat and Timur in a regional value chain consultation and intervention strategy development workshop conducted by the High Value Agriculture Project in…

Rajendra Manandhar in The Kathmandu Post – one of the most read English newspapers in Nepal writes: With community forests receiving money for conserving forest and storing carbon, business communities have shown interests in carbon trade. At the invitation of ICIMOD, FECOFUN and ANSAB, businesspersons including FNCCI Chairman…

The Government of Nepal has appointed ANSAB’s chairperson Radhesh Pant as the Chief Executive of the Nepal Investment Board on November 28, 2011. The Investment Board is envisioned to give a one-window solution to potential investors in big projects over Rs 25 billion with the chairmanship of the…