Collection of resilient mountain solutions

The solutions presented here are informed by a transdisciplinary approach. All the solutions are derived from knowledge co-created with stakeholders who will benefit from and sustain a particular intervention. Most of the solutions have been piloted and tested. They allow for feedback from society to science and back to society, thus ensuring a healthy mutuality between experts and beneficiaries.

Improved rainwater harvesting

Improved rainwater harvesting systems at household and community levels with larger storage capacity were demonstrated...

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Improved terracing for enhancing soil fertility on sloping land

The terracing technology is a combination of vegetative and structural measures that address the

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Incentives for ecosystem services

Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is recognized as a tool for sustaining ecosystem service flows while also contributing to the livelihoods of...

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Innovations in Allo value chain

Poverty and male outmigration are affecting lives in far western Nepal, especially that of women (around 50 percent). Inaccessibility of location...

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Resilience building is a pre-requisite to achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the HKH. The development of simple, easily replicable, affordable, local solutions can go a long way towards addressing the challenges arising from the complexity and dynamism of the mountain context.

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Jholmal for small-scale farmlands

Jholmal is a homemade bio-fertilizer and bio-pesticide prepared by mixing and fermenting in a defined ratio locally available...

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Low-cost water storage ponds for smallholders

The terracing technology is a combination of vegetative and structural measures that address the...

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Managed pollination services

Pollination services provided by honeybees and beekeeping help improve the livelihoods and food security of mountain people...

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Promoting mountain niche crops: large cardamom

Mountains offer economic opportunities in the form of niche products that are low-volume,...

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Key factors and conditions

ICIMOD’s resilience-building framework suggests that interventions at the community level need to account for multiple combinations of factors (i.e., there is no single silver bullet), as determined by local conditions. This tailored approach informs the designing and implementation of solutions presented in this site.

Low-cost drip irrigation

Drip irrigation is a water-efficient irrigation system. It essentially entails dripping water to individual plant root zones at low rates (2.25l/hr) from emitters embedded in...

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Women-centric resilient agriculture development

The Resilient Mountain Village (RMV) approach offers simple and affordable solutions for mountain farmers to adapt...

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Building women’s capacities to leverage remittances

Outmigration of men requires women to acquire new skills, capacities, and knowledge to deal with new challenges,...

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Climate and flood-resilient housing

Under HI-AWARE, ICIMOD partner the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) conducted research in the Teesta floodplain...

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Scaling ‘up’ and scaling ‘out’ challenge

A solution’s ultimate success is the degree to which it is ‘scaled up’ (taken from local levels to national and international levels, either through practice, policy, or procedure) or ‘scaled out’ (taken to a wider area or other sectors). Solution pilots have played an important role in ICIMOD’s experience because key policy and practice actors are often motivated by demonstrable evidence.

Cool roofs: a low-income solution in a warmer climate

Climate change-related heat stress is believed to be one of the greatest threats to human health. Poor people in particular are at high...

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Customizing traditional skills

In the Letmaungkwe Hill Tracts of Southern Shan State, Myanmar, bamboo is an important non-timber forest product for local livelihoods and for the environment.

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Flood-resilient sanitation

Floods in north Bihar are a recurring disaster, which annually take thousands of human lives, apart from killing livestock and destroying assets worth millions.

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Mobile messaging: extension services in remote areas

With an increasing number of mobile users among mountain communities, sending messages through mobile phones has become one of the most...

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Related content

ICIMOD Knowledge Park at Godavari provides as much as 60 different technologies and solutions mostly related to farming and livelihood options useful for sustainable development. Likewise, The Nepal Conservation Approaches and Technologies (NEPCAT) has more than 50 solutions for specific aspects of problems related to water, land degradation, and sustainable land management.
Solutions from the ICIMOD Knowledge Park at Godavari
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Solutions from Nepal Conservation Approaches and Technologies
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