Every region of the world requires unique solutions to building and sustaining its own system for seed security, but practices that work well in one context can often be informative in others. Pioneering initiatives around the world have attempted to address the urgent need for on-farm conservation. Nepal has been at the forefront of these efforts since 1997, when Bioversity, the Nepal Agriculture Research Council (NARC), and LI-BIRD initiated a research program on the implementation of in situ conservation as part of a broader global effort. Their work in Nepal eventually produced an integrated approach called Community Biodiversity Management (CBM) that is now being taken as a model for other countries.