Rescue to Registration: A Case of Bean Landraces from Dolakha, Nepal

Many local crops and landraces are often neglected and underutilized despite of having unique use values and varietal traits. Various on-farm agrobiodiversity management tools and practices have been developed and adopted to identify, conserve and promote local plant genetic resources globally. This article demonstrates the utilization of different participatory tools in the identification of two rare common beans from Jungu, Dolakha and strategies in mainstreaming into national seed system. This article aims to shares the insights of utilizing the combination of various participatory tools of agro-biodiversity management in real ground experience and further up to influencing the policy.