SADP Nepal

Introduction

Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.

Sustainable Agriculture Development Program, Nepal (SADP-Nepal) is a non-profit Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). Established in 2004, SADP is committed to improving the livelihood of underprivileged and under resourced farmers through research, development, and the promotion of sustainable agricultural systems in the country. To achieve its objective SADP put major emphasis on its partnership and collaboration with farmers, farming communities, academia and other organizations at local, national, regional and international levels committed to working together for community empowerment, adaptive research, and the development of sustainable agriculture. SADP-Nepal has broadened its networking in the national and international level. Networking, lobbying and advocating in the favor of organic agriculture is another major focus of SADP-Nepal.

The organization strongly believes that sustainable agriculture can easily enhance for the betterment of the livelihood of the local targeted group. In order to obtain the main goal, our organization has left no stone unturned to utilize its human resources and the natural resources locally available.

It is member of IFOAM (2007), the umbrella organization of organic agriculture development in the world.

Vision

The vision of SADP is to improve the livelihood of Nepalese farmers with diverse agro-ecological, socio-economic, and cultural settings by offering a basic understanding of the development and promotion of a sustainable farming practices (Organic Agriculture), which ultimately creates an environmentally friendly society.

Goal

The overall goal of the organization is to extensively promote sustainable use of natural resources in agriculture through participatory research and development in organic agriculture. The alternative renewable resources will be utilized with proper care and technique for the long term effect. 

SADP-Nepal has carefully designed the goals for the different time frames. Considering the factors like immediate priorities of the farmers, required fundings, time required to achieve the goal and long term impact on the community and the environment. 

Short term Goals- Short Term Goal shall be achieved between 6 months to 2 years. The goal is to create the consumer forum and farmers forum and link them so that organic food products produced by the farmers gets easy access to the consumers in farmer friendly price. Before connecting these two sides SADP-Nepal will train and work with the farmers to encourage them to do the organic farming. Short term goal also includes training the farmers to cultivate soil friendly crop/plant and to value add to these harvest with the simple yet effective and research backed ways to prolong the shelf life of their yields.

Mid Term Goals- Mid Term goals are in parts the elaboration of short term goals. Mid Term goals shall be achieved between 2 and 5 years. Additionally, in the mid term goals SADP-Nepal includes the idea of creating dozens of Agro Tourism Destinations where the Nepalese and foreign travelers both can visit the place, volunteer in different works, experience the cultural exchanges and enjoy the unique peaceful escapade. This naturally increases the livelihood of the host villages. In the mid term we aim to dig deeper into the technical aspect so that we can help farmers produce relatively more technology involved higher value household products. Mid term goal also includes extensively training the people of our work areas regarding the importance of environment and urgency to act to conserve it for the future generations.

Long Term Goals- The assimilation of short term and the mid term goals to provide sustainability to the soil health, environment and the livelihood of as many farmers as possible throughout Nepal is the long term goal of SADP-Nepal. The long term goal of the SADP Nepal is to create the clusters of societies across Nepal which does organic farming, offer the part of the products right away to consumers, adds value to the portion of the products by infusing cost friendly technologies to increase the shelf life of the outputs for distribution within and beyond Nepal, to create myriads of travel destinations based on organic farming and to conserve the land mass and water bodies of the every region we work in by implementing sustainable methods of conservation. Long term goals shall be achieved within by 2035 and shall be preserved as long as possible.

Objectives

Objectives of SADP-Nepal is basically our work ethics from which we will never deviate away. Our objectives always will boost us to get closer to all our goals to be achieved in different timeline.

• To promote organic agriculture by creating awareness through demonstration, action, research, and development.
• Practice of regenerative agriculture so that the soil gets restored with more carbon captured ultimately making farms more resilient to climate change while improving food security.
• Focusing on Clime Smart Agriculture by aiming to boost productivity, increase resilience against climate change and decrease greenhouse gas emission.
• Encouraging the youths and women to seek career paths in organic farming by setting examples of successful lives financially, ethically and emotionally.
• To provide farming communities with the relevant skills and technology for better food production and income generation in a sustainable way.
• To create a forum for researchers, development professionals, farming communities, funding organizations, and academia for research and development in sustainable agriculture.
• To provide training and professional services to the organization and individuals involved in sustainable agriculture development.
• To empower rural communities and improve their level of understanding, access to resources, information, and markets related by establishing organic agriculture resource center.
• To advocate in the favor of organic agriculture and its importance in the national and international level.

Agro (Eco) Tourism

Nepal’s combination of stunning natural environment and strong cultural heritage, make it a truly remarkable country for the development of tourism. Our concern is to link between tourism and the organic agriculture system through which the message gets widespread to popularize organic agriculture. When a group of tourist visits the place, we need to manage logistics like food, accommodation and recreation. Organic food produced in the farm itself, cozy accommodation facilities within the farm and recreational activities with pure farming activities and nature is what our farmlands shall provide at minimum. It is a win win scenario for both; the guests and the host.  The local organic food and other handicrafts prepared by the local people will get value which of course will be an income generating source. It has primarily positive impact to the local people while disseminating the true message with increasing the value of organic products in the greater phenomena. Keeping these realities in mind SADP-Nepal has set up the pre-requisites of agro  (Eco) tourism, as it is also a part of our entire program.

Beside this the organization is also committed to preserve and protect the culture of different ethnic group in its project area which is almost on its last legs. It will also help to transmit the cultural values and customs of different ethnic groups that will promote the tourism.