Established in 1992, the Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources (ANSAB) is a civil society organization committed to biodiversity conservation and livelihood improvement in South Asia. It places community empowerment and economic incentives at the heart of its approach, believing that as people benefit from natural resources they become more motivated to conserve them. ANSAB generates knowledge and results through research and applied studies to implement innovative and enterprise-oriented solutions in line with its mission. It has been consistently evolving, consolidating, institutionalizing and advancing the approaches and strategies for the promotion of community-based enterprises and value chains, natural resources management and biodiversity conservation, enabling policy environment and multi-stakeholders collaboration.