Rebuilding Local Seed System of Native Crops in Earthquake Affected Areas of Nepal - Proceedings of a National Sharingshop

The main aim of the project is to revive and strengthen local seed system capacity and resilience of households through rescue collection, conservation, multiplication and repatriation of native and threatened crop seeds in the most severely affected 10 districts of central and western Nepal, where farmers’ traditional seed stocks have been completely destroyed by devastating earthquakes that occurred in April and May 2015. The project started in June 2015 and to be completed in December 2017.