Varieties with new traits or trait combinations provide farmers with options to succeed and to
adapt to changing agroecological and socioeconomic conditions worldwide. The production …

With economies heavily dependent on agriculture, South Asia is the world's most poverty-
dense region. Nepal—a country of considerable geographic variability ranging from …

Land rights equity is seen as an important tool for increasing empowerment and economic
welfare for women in developing countries. Accordingly, the objective of this paper is to …

This article examines the impact of male out-migration on the workload and status of the
women left behind in rural Nepal. The study uses primary data collected through household …

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has a significant role to play in reducing the gender gap in
labor burden for women in agriculture. A targeted approach to address this gap can be …

Outmigration has become a key livelihood strategy for an increasing number of rural
households, which in turn has a profound effect on land management. Studies to date have …

This study investigates agricultural land use change in Chitwan, Nuwakot and Lamjung
districts of Nepal during 1990–2017 in relation to rural outmigration. Agriculture in Nepal is …

The rural Nepal is going through unprecedented demographic, socioeconomic and
environmental changes. There is a growing pattern of outmigration of male population from …

The role of international labour migration in processes leading to the (re) production of rural
poverty in the rural South continues to shape critical academic and policy debate. While …

This paper analyzes smallholder farmers' willingness to pay (WTP) for the purchase of scale-
appropriate farm mechanization in the hill ecologies of Nepal using the case of mini-tiller …