Environmental policy and administrative management

The "green revolution" in agriculture doubled cereal production in many parts of the world. But this revolution contributes to 14% of total global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, damaging the environment and compromising the global capacity to produce food in the future. On the hand, the concept and practices of agro-ecological and ecosystem management has gained increasing attention worldwide in the last two decades. Different reports and studies has also clearly stated that in order to feed more people with sustainable system, there is a need to adopt such effective and sustainable farming system and also recommends a shift toward agro-ecological and ecosystem management. Similarly, there has compiled evidences demonstrating not only that agro-ecological and landscape management approaches can provide enough food for us all, but that small scale farmers can double food production in a short period of time. Many traditional farming communities and indigenous people have over generations developed agricultural system those are productive and environmentally sustainable. Traditional agricultural knowledge and practices including diversified farming systems offer prototypes for promoting biodiversity, conserving natural resources and sustaining yield. The baseline study conducted by COMDEKS revealed some improvement in Ecosystem and agricultural system in Raksirang and Manahari VDCs due to earlier GEFSGP intervention. But riverbank farming, agroecological farming, intervention on compost making and improving the knowledge base agriecosystem can further improve the SEPL in the area.

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