Acknowledgements
This initiative is part of the Sustainable Agriculture Kits for Nepal (SAKNepal) project. We thank Rachana Devkota (University of Guelph), Roshan Pudasaini (LI-BIRD, Nepal) and especially women farmers associated with LI-BIRD for conducting and enabling extensive participatory editing of this picture book. We thank Kamal Khadka (University of Guelph) for translating English captions into Nepali captions. We thank Anuja Shrestha (University of Guelph) for editorial assistance and for creating the SAKBooks website. We thank Dr. Tejendra Chapagain (University of Guelph) for assistance with the lessons and for Nepali translation editing. We thank Myla Manser (University of Guelph) for technical assistance during editing and Paige Kennedy (University of Guelph) for assisting with text captions. We thank Dr. Kirit Patel (Canadian Mennonite University) for ultimately helping to make this initiative possible. This book was made possible because of generous funding from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Ottawa) and Global Affairs Canada as part of the CIFSRF program.
Dr. Raizada dedicates this book to the memory of his father, Mahesh N. Raizada, an Indian scientist who went to Nigeria in the 1960s to teach a young nation – a man who treated all peoples, rich or poor, with equal respect and dignity.
Dr. Raizada dedicates this book to the memory of his father, Mahesh N. Raizada, an Indian scientist who went to Nigeria in the 1960s to teach a young nation – a man who treated all peoples, rich or poor, with equal respect and dignity.