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Working Groups of Agricultural Plant Genetic Resources (APGRs) in Nepal. Proceedings of National Workshop, 21-22 June 2018, Kathmandu
Abstract
Agro-climatic variation supports for creating and maintaining diversity in agricultural genetic resources in Nepal. Among species and varietal levels diversity in agriculture plant genetic resources (APGRs), it is common to group species and work accordingly for example cereals, fruits, legumes etc. There are many different kinds of crop groups both in academic (vegetables, domesticated) and practical field (eg orphan, primary crop, major crop). However, there are gaps among research organization, academic institutions and field areas on harmonizing the crops groups. Local foods and local APGRs are mostly neglected and not known among researchers, policy makers, business person, students and teachers. There are many agricultural items (eg Jumli Marshi, Akbare Khursani, Latte, etc) that are very popular at certain localities and some of them could have significance value at global market. Exploring the hidden APGRs is therefore necessary for overall food and nutrition security and for the economic development of rural people. With this objective, NARC organized a national workshop on working groups on APGRs. This workshop has opened new areas and identified many potential local APGRs, their groups and created the forum for having common understanding on different dimension of APGRs. There are 27 papers written by 45 authors and group recommendations. All papers that were presented in the workshop were based on local knowledge and local APGRs. The use of different local foods and drinks during workshop to the participants is very much appreciated. Information documented in this proceedings will be very valuable for researchers, academicians, policy makers, students and farmers on native APGRs.
Unprecedented climate change has become a serious challenge to irrigation systems in Nepal. Climate vulnerable irrigation systems affect in food production and have negative implications on national food security. Making irrigation systems climate resilient has been considered a strategy to moderate climate change impact. A climate resilient framework has been proposed which covers the overall vulnerability of the irrigation systems and key features of resilience at systems (infrastructure design, river basins), institutions (rules, management) and agents (individuals, organizations). All three elements of the framework should be addressed along with a good understanding of the context and vulnerability where an irrigation system is situated. The specific interventions may include considering the entire river basin rather than looking solely at individual systems, enhance technical design, improve water use efficiency, adapt agricultural practices, improve water use governance and build robust institutions, among others. These may endow irrigation systems with strong absorptive capacity (helping them to persist), adaptive capacity (leading to incremental adjustments and adaptation), and transformative capacity (leading to transformational responses in the face of expected and unexpected climate change).
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