最佳实践的简短描述

1. It lays emphasis on proper management of marginal uplands: The project considers utilization of marginal lands and land area prone to landslide under agroforestry with fruits and NTFPs in the dry area where most of the poor people live with worst form of poverty and are deprived of necessary technological breakthrough. Banana, pineapples, citrus and broom grass are locally available plant species and are user friendly, have been widely planted in such areas which otherwise would remain unproductive for a long period.
2. It matches the needs and resources of the targeted groups:  The Chepang, Tamang and Dalits altogether 78% are impoverished, marginalized and resource-poor indigenous groups.  They are largely benefitted.
3. It is gender-sensitive. The Project’s main objective was to provide food and income security to the disadvantaged women and children by improving productivity of their dryland agriculture. In overall 80% women from disadvantaged community participated in the project.  
4. It addresses the problems of both poverty and land degradation- desertification:  In over all, the community has been able to achieve an increase in annual food security and ultimately an improvement in living standards through the sales of different agroforestry crops like banana, pineapples, broom grass and other cash crops like ginger and turmeric grown as intercrop within banana farm.  

地点

Makawanpur of Central Nepal

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244457 ha

居住在该地区的估计人口:

45707.0

居住在该地点及/或附近居民的普遍社会经济状况

Land tenure and land use right: More than 85% of land not registered
o Income level: Subsistence
Main income source: Livestock, forestry and agriculture

根据哪些标准和/或指标（与战略无关），在确定建议的实践和相应的技术是否被认为是“最佳”时，应该基于哪些标准和/或指标（与战略无关）？

The project has won Ryotaro Hashimoto Asia Pacific Forum for Environment and Development Award 2008. The award carries a purse of USD20,000 and a gold medal.|

最佳实践解决的主要问题

1. Livelihood
2. Land degradation and
3. Climate change mitigation

概述最佳实践解决的具体土地退化问题

•The hedgerow system with broom grass: As reported by Annual Report of NARC 2000; 40-60% erosion could be reduced by adopting hedgerow.
•Understory_Intercropping: Ginger and turmeric within banana farm
•Alley cropping system with banana, pineapples and fodders (leucaena lecocephala; Ipil-ipil)

具体说明最佳实践的目标

1. Control of slash and burn practices with improved agroforestry i.e. by SALT methods in Khoriya lands
2. Livelihood promotion
3. Capacity building and empowerment of affected families

按目标对主要活动进行简要的描述

Appropriate Agroforestry system in slash and burn zones
1. Alley cropping system fruits (like banana, pineapples) and fodders
3. Integration of livestock
2. Broom grass as hedgerow

本技术的简要说明和技术规范

SALT- 1: Sloping Agricultural Land Technology
This model focuses mainly on food crop production. It is simple in application, low in cost, but is an effective agroforestry technology with agricultural crops and forestry in a ratio of 3:1. Compared to traditional upland farming management practices, this technology substantially decreases erosion. In addition, it increases crop yield.
SALT - 2: Small Agro-livestock Technology
This model focuses on agriculture and livestock technology. It is a simple modification of SALT-I in the sense that it integrates livestock rearing with crop cultivation. The livestock species that can be raised under the system are cattle, sheep, and goats. The manure is a good source of fertilizer. Goats (the poor man's cow) are a potential source of milk, meat, hair and skin.
SALT- 3:  Sustainable Agroforest Land Technology
SALT-III includes conversion of non-productive marginal land into economically productive land to supplement production from other SALT models. This model has three components: SALT I, SALT II, and a separate plot of land to produce valuable timber. Farmers owning landholdings of about two hectares can use this model.
SALT- 4: Small Agro-fruit Livelihood Technology
SALT-IV focuses on developing a horticulture and plantation crop-based system known as the "agro-fruit livelihood technology". To improve hill agriculture and economics, commercialization of hill agriculture is required. Thus, horticulture is a promising option with comparative advantages. The objectives of this model are to produce food, increase cash income, and conserve soil on farmlands.
Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (SALT) is soil conservation oriented farming system developed in the Philippines in the late 1970s by one of the NGO called as Mindanao Baptist Rural Life Center. This has now been researched throughout the globe. The technologies under SALT are found to be effective in conserving soil and water, enhancing soil fertility and increasing crop production.
Objective 1.: Livelihood Promotion
1. Establishment of community irrigation schemes, micro-irrigation schemes
2. Selection of marketable crops under agroforestry system that is easily saleable, gives good prices and are user friendly
3. Technical training and capacity building

技术开发机构的名称和地址

MDI Nepal|Nepal

这项技术是合作开发的吗?

是

列出合作伙伴:

1. Several community of the target area ( 4 VDCs)
2. MDI field staffs (Subject matter specialists)
3. Research studies done by various institutions

具体说明该技术推广的框架

• 地方自主性
• 国家倡议——非政府主导
• 基于方案/项目的倡议

当地利益相关者（包括CSO）的参与是否促进了技术的开发？

是

列出涉及的当地利益相关者:

Members of Niguretar Agricultural Cooperatives Ltd Raksirang VDC
Member of Rupachuri Agricultural Cooperative Ltd. Manahari VDC,
Churiya Mai Agricultural Cooperative Ltd., Handikhola VDC
Janchetana Agricultural Cooperative Ltd., Kankada VDC,
Members of Amriso Community Organization, Silinge, Kankad|

对于上面列出的利益相关者，说明他们在该技术的设计、引入、使用和维护（如果有的话）中的角色。

In selection of crop species

居住在该地区和/或附近的居民是否参与了该技术的开发？

是

通过什么手段？:

• 咨询
• 参与途径

描述现场影响（按类别划分的两类主要影响）

NA
1 Social Impacts: The impacts include – i) institutional networks and linkages at local and district levels;
ii) Raising concerns over tenancy rights on the land under shifting cultivation between national and district level government authorities and
2 iii) Education and health of local women and
Production or productivity
1.  It has been a success story that some 2.7 million plants (60% broomgrass) of different species (banana, pineapples, fodders, broom grass, goat, vegetables, honey etc.) grown in such marginal lands have been able to give annual income worth of Rs. 30-35 thousand (US $ |
1.As of August 2010, income from the sale of bananas, pineapples, broom grass , citrus, vegetables and other cash crops like ginger, turmeric (within banana crops) that were adopted after initiation of the project, totaled more than $100,000 equivalent. Besides, the value of land has increased in |
1. The adoption of agroforestry in areas with steep slopes reduces erosion and the landslide which are the basis of land degradation and desertification.  The planting of trees in an agroforestry system also takes GHG out of the atmosphere and helps in carbon sequestation. Largely reduced fuel wood

对生物多样性和气候变化的影响

解释原因:

Since the slashing and burning or Khoriya farming could not yield any substantial production rather the productive soils are washed out due to erosion and landslide, theu the farmers have no option rather than to adapt Agroforestry.
•Trees are deep rooted and have large reserves, and are less susceptible than annual crops to inter-annual variability or short-lived extreme events like droughts or floods.  Thus, trees offer diversification options that can reduce production risks for small holder farmers.  
•Trees are a perennial resource that can be exploited to provide increased income during difficult periods, thereby reducing income risks associated with climate related shocks for small holder farming families.
The coplete halting of slashing and burning of the vegetation curb the emission of carbon dioxide. Likewise, agroforestry locks carbon in its biomass thus reducing climate change effects and so does the practice of quitting bush burns effects.  |
Agroforestry is a land-use method that allows trees to grow in crop and livestock areas. Studies have shown that it
•is one way to conserve biodiversity as the farm maintains multiple crops as compared to monoculture
•attracts species beneficial to farming, such as pollinators and offers habitat or shelter for other wild animals
•improves farms by, for example, reducing soil erosion

是否进行了成本效益分析？

是否进行了成本效益分析？:

是

具体说明:

Agroforestry  system  showed better  result  for all  three criteria NPV, B-C  ratio and  return  to labor. NPV,  including  household  labor, was  130,951 Rs/ha  in  agroforestry  as  compared  to 11,796 Rs/ha  in  shifting  cultivation. NPV,  not  including  household  labor, was much  higher (173,001 Rs/ ha) in agroforestry system than Khoriya farming (Rs/ha 33411). Similarly return to  labor was  almost  60%  higher  in  agroforestry  system. The B-C  ratio  in Khoriya  farming including household labor opportunity cost was less than 1 indicating that the system was not financially profitable land use system (Table 4) when labor opportunity cost was considered.   
(Based on the analysis of Mr. Rigendra Khadka; prepared for his master thesis on “Transition from   slash -and -burn (Khoriya) farming to permanent agroforestry in the Middle hills of Nepal; An analysis of costs, benefits and farmers’ adoption for submission to Department of International Environment and Development Studies, P.O. Box 5003, N-1432 Ås Norway, Tel.: +47 64 96 52 00 , Fax: +47 64 96 52 01
Internet: http://www.umb.no/noragric)

该技术是否传播/引进到其他地方？

该技术是否传播/引进到其他地方？:

是

传播/引进到哪里？:

The hills and mountains collectively called uplands constitute two third of the total land area of Nepal. The proportion of land with more than 30% slope is 66.3 percent. While shifting cultivation is practiced in some land, the project components can be replicated in almost all of these sloppy areas. Regionally, Eastern Himalayan region encompassing Nepal, India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and South China are other potential places for scaling up of the technology as shifting cultivation in the slope lands is widely practiced in these regions too. The project has thus huge replication potential.   Given the economic contributions and support provided by a wide variety of NGOs and UN agencies, the potential for replicating this project are positive.  The results that were achieved have managed to positively change the environment by transitioning traditional slash and burn agriculture to a more sustainable path.  The successful planning and implementation of the SALT methods of agroforestry in the hills of Makawanpur has presented an excellent example to successfully replicate in similar hills of Nepal and abroad. Many of the hill farmers in Makawanpur and Udaypur districts of the country are attracted with this technology and are gradually adopting. It is learnt that similar agroforestry system has also been applied in East Timor by CARE International sharing experiences from UNDP GEF/SGP Makawanpur programme. Four members Mr. Tome Guterres, Trainee National Project Manager, Mr. Nivio Benevides District Risk Management Officer, Mr. Luis Berebuti, Trainee National Project Manager and Mr. Jose Da Cruz, Monitoring Officer made a cross visit to agroforestry project of Makawanpur and shared their experiences. |

是否提供了促进采用该技术的奖励措施？

是否提供了促进采用该技术的奖励措施？:

是

具体说明激励的类型:

• 政策或监管激励（例如，与市场需求和法规、进出口、国外投资、研发支持等相关）
• 财务激励（例如优惠利率、国家援助、补贴、现金补助、贷款担保等）
• 财政激励（例如免税或减税、关税、费用等）

您能否确定目前最佳实践/技术成功的三个主要条件？

1. Selected agroforestry species are user friendly, quick income generating nature with established market linkages
3. Social mobilization in developing Institutional plateforms (such as groups and cooperatives) were enabled
Linked with,
• Linked to the local context and thus cannot be replicated elsewhere
• Replicable elsewhere with some level of adaptation √
• Replicable elsewhere with major adaptation √
Linked with, |
2. The technologies were developed through rigorous consultations with the users

可复制性

在您看来，您所提出的最佳实践/技术可以复制到其他地方，尽管有一定程度的适应？:

是

适应程度如何？:

• 地方
• 次国家
• 国家
• 区域

人力资源相关

Poor, given some outside support have been able to create capital (physical, human and social) and use it efficiently to improve their quality of life and achieve self-reliance. Complete poverty eradication in an area, which has limited resource base, human and institutional capacity, physical inaccessibility, is difficult in the short run. For poverty eradication sustained effort on a long-term basis would be required in order not to dissipate the effort that has been made by the support organization on the ground. In order to continue the effort outside support as well as local bodies would be required to achieve desired result.
Lessons have been learned from the Project, including the following:
 Initiatives based on acute local needs generally have more chances to succeed. The Project’s point of departure was utilizing marginal lands under horticulture which has been found significant to affect livelihood in the shifting cultivation zones.   
 Rigorous training and support can help inspire technical know-how in remote communities with low levels of literacy.  
 With some outside support and resources, impoverished and marginalized indigenous people are able to implement technology-driven initiatives.
 With the same support and resources, they can also improve their quality of life and increase their self-reliance.
 Little is sometimes needed to help highly vulnerable groups create capital and use it efficiently to reduce their own vulnerability to natural hazards.
 Building partnership between various institutions such as local bodies, donors, government agencies and local communities is important in order to solicit more support for poverty alleviation and environmental programming.
 Poor have been able to save and invest out of income and minimizing surplus leakage by controlling available expenses because of institutional support provided by the project. In lot of cases groups have generated enough savings to reduce demand for non-institutional credit resulting in reduction of interest rate in non-formal market.

与财务方面有关

1. The new initiative appealed the local people but the resource was tiny to make considerable dent in terms of area and household coverage.

与技术方面有关

1. Nutrient management for the grown up plants is crucial. There must be appropriate combinations of crop species mixed with legumes and non-legumes. Presently banana, pineapples mixed with some legumes trees and grass like ipil-ipil and stylo are in combination, assuming that these plants can supply nitrogen to banana and pineapples. For some years this combinations can be able to replenish nutrient and give sustainable harvest. However, in the long run this system requires careful planning so |