IPM IL Trip Report Feed the Future IPM Innovation Lab Project on “Participatory Biodiversity and Climate Change Assessment for Integrated Pest Management in the Annapurna-Chitwan Landscape, Nepal Contents IPM CRSP Trip Report ................................................................................................................................................ 1 1. General information about Trip ........................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Country(s) Visited: ............................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 Dates of Travel: .................................................................................................................................................. 1 1.3 Travelers’ Names and Affiliations: .................................................................................................................. 1 1.4 Purpose of Trip: ................................................................................................................................................. 1 1.5 Sites Visited: ........................................................................................................................................................ 2 2. Description of Activities/Observations: .................................................................................................... 3 2.1 Meeting with team members and workshop: ......................................................................................... 3 2.2 Field visit and interaction with farmers ................................................................................................... 6 3 Training Activities Conducted: ...................................................................................................................... 8 4. Suggestions, Recommendations, and/or Follow-up Items: .............................................................. 10 5. List of Contacts Made:................................................................................................................................... 10 Annexes ................................................................................................................................................................... 12 List of Table Table 1: List of Travelers ............................................................................................................................................. 1 Table 2: Sites visited ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 Table 3: Activities Conducted ..................................................................................................................................... 9 Table 4: List of Contact Made................................................................................................................................... 10 List of Annexes i Appendix 1: Proposed study site .............................................................................................................................. 12 Appendix 2: Inception Workshop Program in brief ............................................................................................ 12 Appendix 3: List of Participants in Interaction workshop ................................................................................... 13 Appendix 4 : List of Participants of Didi Bahini Cooperatives ........................................................................... 16 Appendix 5: farmers of Chhyang Chhyangdi, Syangja .......................................................................................... 17 Appendix 6: List of farmers of Suryadip Bari Saving and Credit Cooperative, Gaidakot, Nawalparashi .... 18 Appendix 7: List of participants of farmers of Fulbari, Chitwan ........................................................................ 18 Appendix 8: List of participants of farmers of Chamauli, Chitwan.................................................................... 19 Appendix 9:Some glimpse of photographs ............................................................................................................. 20 ii 1. General information about Trip 1.1 Country Visited: Nepal 1.2 Dates of Travel: January 25, 2016- February 5, 2016 1.3 Travelers’ Names and Affiliations: The name list of travelers are presented in table 1. Table 1: List of Travelers from USA Name of Travelers Institutions Country travelled Nir Krakauer Ph.D. City College -CUNY, New USA to [email protected] York, NY, USA Nepal/USA Ajay Jha, Ph.D. Institute of Global Agriculture USA to [email protected] and Technology Transfer Nepal/USA (IGATT), Fort Collins, CO, USA David Lohman, Ph.D. City College-CUNY, USA USA to [email protected] Nepal/USA José Anadón, Ph.D. Queens College-CUNY, USA USA to [email protected] Nepal/USA Tenzing Doleck (Graduate Student) City College—CUNY, USA USA to [email protected] Nepal/USA Aishwarya Bhattacharjee (Graduate Queens College—CUNY, USA to Student) USA Nepal/USA [email protected] 1.4 Purpose of Trip: The main purpose of the visit was to effectively implement the USAID IPM Innovation lab project entitled “Participatory Biodiversity and Climate Change Assessment for Integrated Pest Management in the Chitwan-Annapurna Landscape (CHAL)” in Nepal. The specific purposes of the trip: Conduct consultative meetings with stakeholders (Nepal government officials at the national and district level including local NGOs, USAID implementers and Universities of Nepal) in Kathmandu to share the plan of the research project in CHAL, Nepal to stakeholders and solicit suggestion/feedback from participants specifically policy maker, researchers and experts to refine the implementation strategy. Visit research field site and discuss with local stakeholders (researcher, farmers, donor program implementers, government officials, women groups and local 1 agriculture enterprise) about the current climate change, biodiversity and IPM related issues and share the program plan and have their feedback related to steps to be taken for the climate mitigation, adaptation and building rural economic opportunities and women's entrepreneurship through best practices for farmers. To finalize the research topics of Masters and PhD students and the provide training to write research proposal and present during stakeholder meeting. Meeting with USAID/Hariyo Ban program and iDE Nepal for synergistically working in Nepal. To conduct stakeholder consultative meeting in the various research sites from Chitwan-Annapurna Landscape. Meeting with the USAID IPM Innovation lab team from Virginia Tech and IPM Asia group to discuss the plan of activities and seek advice and feedback to improve the program deliverables and M&E. 2 1.5 Sites Visited: The sites of the visit were Kathmandu, Puranchaur, Pokhara, Chhyang Chhyangdi VDC Syangja district, Gaidakot Municipality, Nawalparashi district, Fulbari and Chamauli VDC of Chitwan district (see table 2). Table 2: Itinerary and sites visited Date Visited Institutions Location Activities January 27, Project team members Hotel Greenwich, Interaction with research 2016 from Nepal (AFU, TU) Lalitpur team January, 28, at USAID/Nepal Kathmandu Briefed about the project to 11 AM USAID officials headed by Bronwyn January 28, Hariyo Ban Program, Baluwatar, Discussed with COP of 12:30 PM WWF, Nepal Kathmandu Hariyo Ban, Dr. Judy, Mr. Jagdish and others to connect Hariyo Ban sites with our program and build partnership platform to work together on common theme and interest. January 28, Hotel Greenwich, Interaction with student evening Lalitpur researchers, faculty supervisors & mentored on research proposal development January 29, (9- Stakeholders from Hotel Himalaya, Consultative Stakeholder 4:30) different institutions Lalitpur Workshop 30 January Didi Bahini Saving and Puranchour 6, Research site interaction (afternoon) Credit Cooperative Kaski and meeting with the women cooperative 31 January Farmers cooperatives Chhyang Research site selection and (morning) Chhyangdi- 2, meeting with the field Syangja stakeholders 1 February Permaculture group Gaidakot -2 Meeting with the local Nawalparashi stakeholders and selecting research sites Organic farmers group Fulbari, Chitwan Research site selection Quality product group Chamauli, Research site selection Chitwan 2 February Meeting with P. K. Jha 3 February, at Tribhuvan University Kirtipur, Meeting with departmental 10:00 AM (TU) Kathmandu faculties & students at TU 3 February, iDE (International Bakundol, Presentation about the afternoon Development Lalitpur project Enterprises) 2. Description of Activities/Observations: 3 This visit is categorized under three main sections. 2.1 Meeting with team members and interaction workshop, 2.2 Field visit and interaction with farmers, 2.3 Meeting with various stakeholders. 2.1 Meeting with team members and workshop: Four interactive meetings and one large consultative stakeholder workshop was organized in Kathmandu between 27 to 29, January, 2016. a) The first joint meeting was held with team members from CUNY, TU and AFU on January 27 at Hotel Greenwich, Lalitpur, Nepal. There were 14 participants in the meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the project objectives and implementation plan for 2016. Also,