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Acknowledgements
The publication is a product of the LI-BIRD implemented project entitled “Enhancing the
contribution of home gardens to on-farm management of plant genetic resources and to
improve the livelihoods of Nepalese”. The project is coordinated globally by the IPGRI and
financial contribution is made by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
We gratefully acknowledge the support provided by LI-BIRD, IPGRI and SDC to the project.
We are grateful to Dr. Pablo Eyzaguirre, global coordinator to the home garden project for
his persistent encouragement and support provided to the project. We are thankful to the
professional experts especially Dr. Timothy Jones, McGill University, Canada, Dr. RB Rana,
Research Officer, International and Rural Development Department (IRDD), The University
of Reading UK, contributing authors, field staff of the project and the collaborating farmers
and farming community for their contribution and participation at the various stages of the
project. We wish to thank national project partners' viz. National Agricultural Research
Council, Department of Agriculture, National Food Nutrition Programme of Department of
Food Technology and Quality Control, Plan Nepal, Care Nepal and Helen Keller
International for their effective collaboration with the project.
Finally, we are thankful to Ms Smreety Dewan of Bioversity InternationaI-APO, Nepal and
Mr. Shashish Maharjan for technical support provided and Ms Rachhya Shah, Ms Sita Tiwari
and Ms Muna Udas of LI-BIRD for their contribution in word processing, formatting, layout
and publication management of the proceedings.