Home Gardens in Nepal
Home Gardens in Nepal – The Value of Home Gardens to Small farmers. The home garden is a traditional component of the rural ecosystem that has been practiced for a long time by farmers.
Home gardens are often overlooked as an important source of food and nutrition at national level. For subsistence and poor farmers, crop varieties and cultivars adapted to particular micro-niches around homesteads are crucial and accessible resources available to provide a secure livelihood.
The purpose of this paper is to review the value of home gardens that contribute to not only food and nutrition but also a wide range of social, economic and environmental benefits to people.
The paper also describes the goods and services provided by agricultural biodiversity in home gardens that interface between the natural ecosystem, orchards and crop fields.
