Nepal has to start urgently treating food security as a national security issue
Focus on proven solutions like investing in prenatal nutrition, rather than on flashy, multisectoral schemes with no immediate payoff
Urban agriculture can be Nepal's solution to falling food production, can create jobs, recharge groundwater and preserve open spaces
Nepal is lagging behind in meeting 2030 targets on eliminating hunger and reducing inequality
Nepal’s checklist for improving agricultural production
Tso Rolpa glacial lake at 4,580m has grown seven times in size in the past 60 years due to global warming. Photo: RASTRARAJ BHANDARIThe village…
Already reeling from child hunger and wars in Yemen and across Saharan and central Africa, the developing world is now bracing for the full…
Despite two-thirds of its population dependent on agriculture, and having fertile land ideal for farming, Nepal’s annual food imports are rising…
All photos and infographics courtesy of: MERCY CORPSThe news of Covid infections in Karnali do not readily reach the capital. But remote…
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the livelihoods of the most neglected communities in Nepal, with a direct impact on the food intake of family…
Nepal has had one emergency heaped on top of another for more than a year now. The Covid-19 emergency, wildfires, and now floods.Political flux…
Nepal’s politicians study neither biology nor political science, and we are paying the price during this pandemic
After 50 days what is utterly extraordinary has come to seem normal, the unimaginable is commonplace
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in a survey of food security in Nepal has said that although there is sufficient stock to last…
The COVID-19 lockdown by the government is an effort at ‘primary protection’, and builds on the experience of how other countries have flattened…
As the road meanders uphill towards my village of Dhee in Upper Mustang, I recall my childhood amidst these mountains. Life was hard then,…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its Special Report on land last week in Geneva that has an important warning for…
Grow vegetables faster, cleaner and with less water than conventional farming — it all sounds very fishy. And it is. Aquaponics combines rearing…
Gebru Jember Endalew has been involved in UN negotiations on climate change since 2008 as a core member of the Ethiopian negotiating team. Last…
Unprecedented in recorded history, there was a 100 degree C difference in temperature between the northern and southern hemispheres last week.…
Climate change is global, it does not respect national boundaries. Neither should its solution. The only way we can save the biosphere from…
