BSF project "Community-based Biodiversity Management for Climate Change Resilience (CBM for Resilience Project)"

" Community-based Biodiversity Management for Climate Change Resilience (CBM for Resilience Project)" is one of the projects supported by the Benefit-Sharing Fund of the International Treaty for Food and Agriculture (Second Cycle). Community resilience is at the core of the proposed Strategic Action Plan that LI-BIRD, a Nepalese NGO, is developing in cooperation with partners from 12 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America under the aegis of this BSF project The CBM for Resilience Project aims to contribute to strategic plans promoting the use of the Community Based Methodology as a strategy for strengthening on-farm management of plant genetic resources and building resilience through community-oriented processes involving 26 grassroots’ organizations associated with resource poor and vulnerable farmers. LI-BIRD and its partners are conducting participatory diagnoses of climate threats affecting 26 sample sites and are conducting trials to test the best adaptive options available from a bottom-up perspective.