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Climate Resilient Agriculture System for Smallholder Farmers in Nepal

?Climate Resilient Farming System for Smallholder Farmers in Nepal? project aims to build climate and disaster resilient farming communities in the context of climate change in Nepal. The project will work with 2400 SHFs in 8 wards of 4 rural municipalities (local governance units) in Nawalpur district of Nepal from January 2023 to December 2025. The project will follow the smallholder farmers collective (SHFC) led approach and multi-stakeholder engagement as major strategies to achieve the envisaged results. Other learnings and successful approaches derived from the SAFBIN project co-financed by the European Union, will be used for strengthening the local CSOs like SHFCs, Water User Groups, Forest Management Groups etc. The project will directly address the issues of climate change and its impact on the smallholder farming communities. It will collectivize and engage communities to generate environment friendly local solutions to the problems caused by climate change. It will promote eco-friendly pathways to achieve sustainability in farming systems through regenerative agriculture and nature based solutions such as farm diversification, low external inputs, maximum use of locally available resources, conservation of local ecosystem, on-farm adaptive research (OFAR) etc. The project will also focus on value addition activities on locally available traditional and high value crops and livestock products to increase the income of these SHFs. At system level, the project will work in collaboration with the local government to strengthen their response to climate and disaster resilience by generating scalable samples. The project will work in 2 wards of each rural municipality and will cover the most vulnerable and marginalized 300 SHFs in each ward. The successful models and practices will be replicated in other wards of the rural municipalities. The project will concentrate particularly on five cross-cutting matters of sovereignty, justice, gender, equality and sustainability. These core principles are followed throughout the project strategy. In addition, the project will align with the national and local plans and policies on climate change.