Español: Bancos de semillas comunitarios en Nepal: Pasado, Presente, Futuro. Description: This publication is an output of a national workshop co-organized by organizations directly involved in supporting and facilitating the process of establishing and strengthening community seed banks in Nepal. Community gene and seed banks have a history of about 30 years. They emerged in different parts of the world in response to concerns about the loss of agricultural biological diversity, the total loss of seeds caused by natural disasters such as floods and hurricanes, the impact of climate change, declining access to quality seeds, and demand from farmers to participate
in locally driven biodiversity management strategies. They can be found around the world under different names, and are diverse in terms of size, form and function.