Napier in Shifting and Sloping Land: Source of Family Income for "Sanu Kanchha"
Sanu Kancha Gurung, 35, is a resident of Ampu Khaireni-9, Kharsang, Siran Tole, Tanhun District. He is a resource farmer and is involved in leasehold forestry project activities as an active lead farmer since 2007. He is also member of Navajagriti Farmer Coordination Group, a federation of leasehold groups. Sanu Kanchha is a poor and marginalized farmer with less than two ropanis of land. He has no regular source of income to support his family. He earns small amounts of cash from intermittent carpentry projects around his village and through sale of pulses grown on his farm.
Barsati Chaudhary is a Tharu woman living in a mixed community of Pahadi and terai (Vadasha-8, Rupandehi). Her family owns 6 kattha lands in total and depends on the income from wage laboring. They have about 3 kattha land as home garden which, until the project intervention, was not properly managed and used to its capacity. Number and diversity of home garden species was minimal and not sufficient to meet their daily and year round vegetable needs. The family was spending their hard-earned wages to purchase vegetables and other items from Indian vegetable vendor and local markets.
Ganga Maya Gurung (46 years old women) resident of Jamunkuna, Rupakot VDC Kaski was involved in Community Biodiversity Registration activities for last four years. Production from small rented land (1000m2) was not enough to maintain her large family. She did not have any alternative source of income to support her family. She had trouble in her entire days when her neighbors did not trust her for providing loan. Due to this reason she could not send her children to school.
