2011
Name of winner: Ms. Mina Devi Bishwakarma
Address: Godawari-3, Kailali
2010
Name of winner: Ms. Indradevi Oli
Address: Ghanteshwor-3, Doti
Ms. Indradevi Oli is an active member of a 375 household Biodiversity Conservation and Development Committee (BCDC) in Ghanteshwor-3, Doti. A BCDC is responsible for planning, mobilizing groups and monitoring community-based biodiversity management (CBM) activities in their village. Ms. Oli has been conserving indigenous, many of which are endangered, varieties of several crops, such as, taro (pindalu, Colocasia esculenta L.), yam (tarul, Dioscorea alata L.), air potato (gittha, D. bulbifera L.), pomegranate, local beans, maize, and pear. She has been promoting biodiversity through exhibitions at local fairs. She is a resource home gardener and also engaged in value addition of local citrus and taro crops. Ms. Oli, a widow with 5 children, has a vital role in her village as a custodian of indigenous knowledge and a champion of biodiversity conservation.
2009
Name of winner: Ms. Parbati Tobota
Address: Devisthan-5, Gairatol, Gulmi.
- Contributed to create awareness among Dalit community.
- Associated with Resunga Multiple Farmers Group
- Actively involve in homegarden improvement activities.
- Established vegetable/fruit nursery, plastic tunnel, kitchen fish pond in her homegarden.
- Actively involved in seed and planting materials exchange for homegarden improvement.
2008
Name of winner: Ms. Sukmaya Chepang
Address: Chhimkeswari, Tahanun
Ms. Chepang is from Rasauli Village in Chimkeswori VDC of Tanahun district. She was actively involved as a research farmer in developing technologies for sloping and shifting cultivation areas since 2001. In the last few years, she contributed in demonstrating innovative ideas and process in hedgerow species selection and domestication of wild foods. She also disseminated the integrated hedgerow technology and knowledge to adjoining communities as a resource person. She was acknowledged by Best Innovative Female Farmer Award 2008 for her outstanding contribution in promotion of hedgerow technology for the improvement of livelihoods of communities dependent on shifting and sloping land. This award is established by Dr. Balaram Thapa and Ms. Narmada Thapa, founder members of LI-BIRD.
2007
Name of winner: Ms Maya Kumal
Address:
With project support, Ms Maya Kumal enhanced her knowledge and managerial skills on home garden. She has maintained 60 species diversity in her home gardens and initiated to conserve local varieties of crops (beans). Integrated kitchen fish pond, poultry, mushroom farming and nursery raising around the small homestead are the central attraction of her home garden. She Was able to convert a shape less homestead area into a resourceful home garden. Devotion, hard work and confidence are the secrets of her success. LIBIRD has recognized her outstanding performance and contribution in promotion of home gardens for quality livelihood enhancement and honored her “Innovative Female Farmer Award, 2007.”
Ms Kumal was selected out of more than 60,000 Households with whom LI-BIRD is working directly through different projects in Nepal. With confidence from her two years of experiences, she invested the award money to buy a piglet and integrated it into her home garden enterprise. She is now a role model in the village as her success is motivating other members of the community to improve of their home gardens.
2006
Name of winner: Ms. Dhan Kumari Pulami
Address : Dulegaunda-2, Eklekhet, Tanahun
Why was she awarded?
- Has developed new technique to grow seed saplings on the bamboo racks
- Has domesticated wild plants
- Has widely distributed seeds
- Has scaled up of off-season vegetable farming
2005
Name of winner: Ms. Lalkumari Basnet
Address : Darbar Devisthan, Gulmi
Why was she awarded?
- Was the first woman to do tasseling
- Has taken a bold decision and initiation to drive PPB process forward
- Has selected the rejected material by breeders and bred to develop a new variety, Resunga Composite
- Was involved in crossing of Ganesh 2 and Thuo Pinyalo
- Has made contribution on community mobilization and was a key player in research