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We work to assist women from the lowest (untouchable) castes in southern Nepal through provision of training and subsequent employment within the environmental sector. As a pilot, we are setting up a bio fertiliser production site that will benefit the environment and poorest communities.
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Situation
In spite of having potentially productive farmland in south Nepal, Nepal is a net food importer. Moreover, farmers import expensive chemical fertilisers from and through India. Both sets of imports involve a large carbon footprint. Intensive use of chemicals is harmful to the soil quality and pollutes the water supply through nitrates and phosphates. The fertilisers might mean some short-term increase in productivity, but it leaves the soil exhausted and infertile, the environment ruined.
Solution
We will set up an organic fertiliser production site using locally available resources. This pilot project will promote agricultural sustainability with the potential to be upscaled locally and nationally. The equipment and methods used have been designed by scientists from the Nepal Bioscience Research Laboratory. We will train women from the lowest castes so that they can find work and support themselves and their families. Ultimately, we will use profits to sustain environmental programmes.
