Post-disaster Revival of the Local Seed System and Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study of Earthquake Affected Mountain Regions of Nepal

摘要

The devastating earthquake that hit Nepal on 25 April 2015 most severely impacted rural farm households particularly in remote and risk-prone mountainous regions. Here, farmers' food security is highly dependent on the use of self-saved and locally exchanged seeds of traditional crops and crop varieties. The official estimate by the Government of Nepal indicated that stored food grains and seeds amounting to more than NPR 8 billion (US$80 million) were lost and about 60% of households' food and seedstocks were completely destroyed by the mega earthquake and subsequent aftershocks (FAO, 2015).