International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development

Kathmandu, Nepal

Welcome to ICIMOD Knowledge Park at Godavari

Participants from Asia Pacific Graduate's Forum for Green Economy (28th Sept. 2012)

A place – Where different technologies and (farming) practices useful

for sustainable development can be tested, selected, and demonstrated

– Where farmers and those who work with them can be trained

– Serve as a repository for plant germplasm resources and associated floral & faunal biodiversity

Interventions

• Vegetation management

• Soil management

• Water management

• Income generation packages

• Livestock and fish farming

• Biodiversity

• Renewable energy technologies

• Support functions and scientific research

• Community outreach

• Services, training, and publications

Vegetation management

– Forest and shrub-land management

– Multi-storied vegetation with continuous ground cover

– Orchids, wild edible, medicinal, and aromatic plants

– Swampy-wetland area development: reclamation of wetland area

– Biomass study plot

– Carbon monitoring plot

– Bamboo mgt. plot

Soil management

– Sloping agricultural land technology (SALT)

– Green manure and cover crops

– EM composting, Biodynamic, Vermi composting, Tunnel

method of composting, Black plastic composting

– Bio-pesticides and plant tonics

Water Management

– Natural Spring Water Harvesting

– Water Harvesting Pond

– Roof Top Rain Water Harvesting (Ferrous cement jar)

– Stone line/ grass line water ways

– Gravity Sprinkler Irrigation, Easy Drip Irrigation, Treadle pump

Livestock and fish farming

– Goat husbandry

– Angora rabbits

– Fish farming

Income Generation Packages

– Fruits, nuts, and spices

– Medicinal and aromatic plants

– Broom grass

– Cardamom cultivation

– Paulownia tomentosa

– Lapsi (Hog plum)

– Plastic film technology (PFT)

– Beekeeping (Apices cerana)

– Shitake Mushroom cultivation

– Organic vegetable farming

Biodiversity

– Flora and fauna

– 694 Plants species (biomass study-2002)

– 231 Wild animals

– Swampy wetland area

– Beekeeping

Renewable Energy Technologies

Solar technologies– Sosto solar drier– Solar parabolic cooker– Solar oven– Solaqua still plant– Trombe hut

Non-solar technologies– Bio-briquetting technology (beehive/others)– Improved cooking stoves– Peltric set technology– Puxin bio-gas plant– Cycle water pump– Hydro ram water pump– Cool chamber

Support functions and scientific research

– Nursery research

– Meteorological monitoring

– Biomass study

– Soil erosion monitoring

– Air pollution monitoring

– Carbon monitoring

Community outreach

– Collaboration with NGOs

– Working with forest user groups

– 3-DM (participatory 3-dimensional model)

– Awareness/Exposure

– Distribution of materials

Visitors

Year

1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 20100

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240 412 267 309

8761186

1604 16801851 1672

2404 2177 2449

3685

3206

3673

4307Number of Visitors

Students Farmers RMCs and others Total0

500

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1552

585292

2429

1406

322150

1878

2958

907

442

4307

Visitors in ICIMOD D & T Center in (Jan-Dec. 2010)

Visitors

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Seeing is believing

• Today, Godavari is spreading ideas that are

used again and again at various levels and in

different places. It is helping to build a

potential for change as well as raising

awareness of the endless possibilities for

people across the greater Himalayan region.

• Truly ‘seeing is believing’ – what better way

to spread knowledge than to help people to

see and do for themselves...

1994

2004

Now and then

Thank You