Strategic Planning for Mountain Agriculture Research

Gilgit-Baltistan is Pakistan’s most elevated northern tip of the country and home of the region’s fresh water resources, an abundance of wild-life and highly adapted smallholder agriculture. For 30 years, the Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) has been supporting irrigated highland farming in the Hindukush-Himalaya area with the Mountain Agriculture Research Center (MARC).
In order to enhance research impacts on farming practice, FAKT supported a joint planning exercise, involving the stakeholders of agriculture research in the region and nationwide.

Countries
Pakistan
Clients
GIZ, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH ICIMOD, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development
Period
2013

FAKT Services

  • A concluding workshop with PARC and relevant provincial and national actors helped finalising the strategic planning
  • Additionally, first concrete steps and projects were defined for the purpose of improving the contribution of agriculture and agriculture research to the development of the area.
  • Interviews, visits and workshops with all actors along the value chains of mountain agriculture products, with extension workers, researchers and nature protectionists provided a first draft of the strategic goals and objectives for the centre as well as
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