Banana farming in Chitwan has come under attack from a banana disease identified as Tropical Race 4 (TR4), a new variant of ...

Fields stay uncultivated because no one is left to farm them, a heartbreaking sight in a country where food security remains ...

Farm entrepreneur Bishnu Bhujel did everything to not be a farmer like his parents in Sarlahi. Subsistence agriculture had ruined them, so they could not even send their children to school. Bishnu ...

The Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development announced in May that Nepal would become agriculturally self-sufficient within a year. But the government’s budget, planning and practices in ...

DULUTH, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The AGCO Agriculture Foundation (AAF), a private foundation with the vision to prevent and relieve hunger through sustainable agricultural development, today announced a ...

This story was originally published by Durga Rana Magar in Nepali Times. An edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Like many Nepalis, Surendra Dhami ...

Farmers are getting help to irrigate their land and protect crops from pests and extreme weather, enabling them to earn more and reducing the need to seek work in India PYUTHAN, Nepal, Jan 6 (Thomson ...

The 2015 Gorkha earthquake was a singular natural disaster that has defined Nepal’s economic development in the latter half of the 2010s. Hit particularly hard by the earthquake was the once-booming ...

Every visit to the rural vicinities across Nepal today presents a new sign of change, a call to marketers that they will have to re-strategize their promotion plan. But there is no specific formula to ...

The story of Bindu Chaudhary, a young journalist in Nepal saving lives from devastating flooding through her radio broadcasts ...

International Journal of the Commons, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2019), pp. 105-129 (25 pages) Collective farming has been suggested as a potentially useful approach for reducing inequality and transforming ...