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		<title>Through policy, practice, and regional collaboration: catalysing climate-proofed tourism in the HKH </title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ICIMOD initiated the climate-proofing mountain tourism landscape concept through a two-pronged approach – field school and policy development. These approaches are connecting communities to policy, where lessons and experiences from the field inform policy development. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The win-win of phasing out farming chemicals in Surkhet </title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 04:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Farmer Laxmi Thapa worried that ditching chemical fertilisers and pesticides would hit her bottom-line. With the help of GRAPE, her input costs have dropped, while her yield, and health, have leapt.  ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Youth in agroecology: a new generation leverages climate resilience in agriculture</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Farming requires perseverance and hard work at the best of times. Now with the effects of climate change firmly embedded in many places across the HKH region, farming communities need to become resilient to these impacts.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cultivating change in a changing climate: Local farmers transforming agriculture in western Nepal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 06:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Drought, extreme weather events, and shifting pest and disease patterns are some of the challenges posed by a changing climate that affect farmers all over the HKH. One such farmer is Puna Rawat Bhandari, 31, from Dailekh District, in western Nepal, where she plays a vital role as a local resource person at the Community Learning Centre in Bhandaritol, Ward 4, Dullu Municipality.]]></description>
		
		
		
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