The Green Resilient Agriculture Productive Ecosystems (GRAPE) project seeks to foster climate resilience and sustainable economic growth in Nepal's Sudurpashchim and Karnali provinces. As one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, Nepal's economic development is closely tied to agriculture. Communities dependent on agriculture, particularly in Western Nepal, are among the poorest and most severely affected by climate change.
The Community Learning Centre (CLC) operates on the principle of "seeing is believing" and aims to facilitate climate-resilient agriculture through co-design, replication, and scaling of simple solutions. CLCs serve as regional learning centers and knowledge hubs, fostering peer-to-peer learning and knowledge sharing among farmers, agriculture experts, and practitioners. The focus is on agricultural technologies that benefit farmers with similar agroecological and soil conditions. Farmers actively participate through groups, allowing for research, experimentation, and innovation in farming techniques. CLCs provide context-specific, affordable, gender-responsive, and nature-based guidance. They emphasize participatory action research, validating both innovative and traditional knowledge-based solutions, and integrating traditional ecological and climate knowledge to address the specific impacts of climate change on agriculture in rural settings.