CASE STORIES
A career change at sixty!
Story from Nawalparasi under Sustainable Livelihoods
Sixty-year-old Pitam Soti was a labourer in construction all his life and usually worked outside his home village of Jhate, in Hupsekot Rural Municipality. He was aging and the physical masonry work was getting harder for him. So, over the last year he rarely left the village...
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Turmeric: Stimulating commercial cultivation
Story from Doti under Sustainable Livelihoods
Suntali Devi BK is from a Dalit community which is an extremely marginalised group. She lives with her family of five members. Her family used to run their household through earnings from Indian employment where her husband was engaged.
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Stinging Nettles for Income
Story from Doti under Sustainable Livelihoods
Jailkala Devi is seen picking nettle leaves, blanching and drying them. This ordinary shrub has become a reliable source of income for her. The demand of the nettle leaf powder is growing by the day as people have become aware of its medicinal value. She sells the nettle powder packets...
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Investing in women farmers
Story from Bajhang under Sustainable Livelihoods
Dhanudevi Bali lives in Bajhang district, in the far west of Nepal, and is a true follower of the phrase "learning by doing". With lots of social and economic challenges, her endeavors in learning new things and applying what she learns in her fields have been very successful.
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Fish and fruit and feathered friends
Story from Sunsari under Sustainable Livelihoods
The Samaweshi group in Letang built a fire preparedness pond in the community, and have now stocked it with fish. As well as retaining water, the pond is also generating income for the group. Letang is very vulnerable to fire hazards. There was no permanent way to collect...
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The Sheep and The Goats
Story from Mugu under Sustainable Livelihoods
Sheep and goats are a major income source for farmers of Pina and Rara VDCs in Mugu. Scabies and other external parasites (like fleas and mites) and internal parasites (tapeworm, liverfluke, and roundworm) are a serious problem to farmers, as they affect the growth and development of animals. Farmers face the problems of reproductive health disorders, lack of weight gain compared with age, and even the deaths of several animals each year.
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Salt of The Earth!
Story from Dhading under Sustainable Livelihoods
Kabita Tamang lives in Jharlang VDC in northern Dhading. Her main income source is from farming, for which she uses traditional technologies. However, production was low, and she was not satisfied because she put a lot of hard work into it. She wanted to increase her production but she faced lot of problems, such as losing topsoil from the sloping land, low fertility, and not having access to newer technologies.
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Bhakta Bahadur's Brighter Future
Story from Bajhang under Sustainable Livelihoods
Bhakta Bahadur Kathayat's steps are heavy as he trudges home. It's been a long day. He left home very early, carrying a load of tomatoes to the market in the district headquarters, two hours' walk away. He's tired, but his heart is light. He's sold all his crop, and is carrying back some cloth for his wife Sarada, and new exercise books and pencils for his five children for school.
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A Family Affair
Story from Bajhang under Sustainable Livelihoods
Seventeen people are a lot to provide for! Paruli and UjiteSarki always struggled to support their three sons. Now that their sons are married and have nine children of their own, there are even more mouths to feed. Fortunately, everyone helps out during busy times on the land, even the youngsters.
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I've earned more than my husband!
Story from Rukum under Sustainable Livelihoods
It is around end of the spring season. Seed-growing farmers in Kholagaun look very busy with their daily chores of harvesting and threshing their cash crops - onion, radish, and peas - in the field. Parbati Jaisi, 26, a woman from this village, was even smarter this year, as she was able to thresh her onion and radish crops a few days earlier, and sell those for NRS 45,000 (nearly AUD 600), which is four times more than last year's sale.
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