Agrarian reform and rural development in Nepal
Nepal is a landlocked country situated between the two most populous countries of the World China and India. Despite its relatively small size it is a very diverse country in terms of both agro-ecological and socio-economic conditions. Over the millennia it has evolved different farming systems. As these systems integrate crop and livestock productions, they use forest products also in the process. Thus, while optimizing use of the available natural resources these systems tend to be of subsistence type given the remoteness of the production units from market. These factors have also contributed to shaping of the natural resource management policies and programmes in Nepal. A confluence of the traditional inequality in the distribution of cultivable land, extremely limited scope for expansion of the cultivated land, excessive dependence on subsistence agriculture for livelihood, failure of the non-agricultural sector to create significant employment opportunitiess all amidst fast growing population, over a long period of time is at the heart of the widespread poverty, especially in the rural areas of Nepal.
Event: A vision for the future : International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development
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