Back to the land in the cities
Urban agriculture can be Nepal's solution to falling food production, can create jobs, recharge groundwater and preserve open spaces
urbanisation
Pouring concrete on rice fields
On Nepal’s annual Rice Day, a reminder about urban growth devouring paddy fields
The rise of high-rises
Nine years after the 2015 earthquake, Kathmandu has to ask: how safe are the new tall structures
Rooftop agriculture on the roof of the world
When the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted food supply, Bijaya Manandhar, did not anticipate that her life would be ruined upside down.Her hometown of...
Cost of living in a big city
Over the last decades, Nepal’s socio-political transformation has led the country from an agriculturally-dependent rural nation to a country with expanding urban...
North Indian heat wave hits Nepal
This spring, northern India saw the hottest March since records started being kept 120 years ago, and this week people in the Indo-Gangetic plains are bracing themselves...
Home is where the heart is
What drives Nepal's singular obsession with owning a house?
Right trees for right seasons in Kathmandu
Every spring Kathmandu turns into a city of flowers blooming with jacaranda and bougainvillea. People wait year-round to escape the otherwise dull...
A load of rubbish
Nepal’s capital stank for more than a fortnight before Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) decided to resume garbage collection this week with the...
Kathmandu's ‘flash floods’ are 4 decades in the making
Aerial photograph of Kathmandu Valley, looking west over the floodplain in 1967. Photo: EARL WEBB/DOUG HALL PEACE CORPS COLLECTIONS Kathmandu Valley’s geography...
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