HICAP

Global Landscape Forum (GLF) 2015

Paris COP21 Journalist Workshop: Understanding the COP Process

Filling knowledge gaps in the HKH

Initial HICAP study results “The climate has already changed a lot. Last year we suffered from floods, now we are suffering from drought. There is no rain, but we must cultivate our land. Otherwise we will have nothing to eat”. –  60-year old farmer, Lower Laopani, Tinsukia, India The lack of sufficient information and data from […]

Increasing incomes of the rural poor though bay leaf value chain development

Story of Madan Singh, Chamoli District, India Madan Singh is a farmer living with his wife and two sons in Nizmullah, a village in Chamoli District in the northcentral part of Uttarakhand State in India. He also owns a small grocery store and a nursery – the only one in his village other than the […]

Government of Nepal allocates public investment to Shardu Khola as a priority national urban watershed

In 2018, the Department of Soil Conservation and Watershed Management (DSCWM) under Nepal’s Ministry of Forests and Environment listed Shardu Khola watershed in east Nepal as one of the country’s seven prominent urban watersheds. This comes as a result of four years of engagement between the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), municipalities, and […]

Mountain agroforestry, Traditional crops and Livelihoods in the Hindu Kush Himalayas

Closing Knowledge Gaps to Scale-Up Adaptation: The Lima Adaptation Knowledge Initiative

ICIMOD Knowledge Products Launched at IPCC Event in Kathmandu, Nepal

Adaptation Solution Brief: Strengthening women’s roles as risk and resource managers at the frontline of climate change Launched by Nand Kishor Agrawal, Programme Coordinator for the HICAP initiative, the first of the two products was a solution brief titled “Strengthening women’s roles as risk and resource managers at the frontline of climate change”. Mr. Agrawal […]