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Articles tagged with #food security
Philanthropy in an era of declining development aid
Focus on proven solutions like investing in prenatal nutrition, rather than on flashy, multisectoral schemes with no immediate payoff
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
More equal than others
Nepal is lagging behind in meeting 2030 targets on eliminating hunger and reducing inequality
Food security is national security
Nepal’s checklist for improving agricultural production
Nepal’s citizen scientists track climate change
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…
The geopolitics of food
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIAlready reeling from child hunger and wars in Yemen and across Saharan and central Africa, the developing world is now…
Nepal less and less able to feed itself
Despite two-thirds of its population dependent on agriculture, and having fertile land ideal for farming, Nepal’s annual food imports are rising…
Karnali’s Covid blues
All photos and infographics courtesy of: MERCY CORPSThe news of Covid infections in Karnali do not readily reach the capital. But remote…
The pandemic of hunger
Photo: MARTY LOGANThe Covid-19 pandemic has affected the livelihoods of the most neglected communities in Nepal, with a direct impact on the…
Hunger for governance
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…
The interface of politics and science
Nepal’s politicians study neither biology nor political science, and we are paying the price during this pandemic
Coronavirus Nepal Lockdown Month 2
After 50 days what is utterly extraordinary has come to seem normal, the unimaginable is commonplace
COVID-19 affecting food security in Nepal: WFP
Photo: BIKRAM RAIThe United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in a survey of food security in Nepal has said that although there is sufficient…
Back to the future of farming
Photo: LISA CHOEGYALThe COVID-19 lockdown by the government is an effort at ‘primary protection’, and builds on the experience of how other…
11-day trek is now a day’s drive in Nepal
From Korala Pass on the Nepal-China border facing south. Annapurna and Nilgiri in the distance.As the road meanders uphill towards my village of…
IPCC report and Nepal’s food security
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its Special Report on land last week in Geneva that has an…
Something fishy in new Nepal farm
Photos: HRIJATA DAHALGrow vegetables faster, cleaner and with less water than conventional farming — it all sounds very fishy. And it is.…
From playing victim to proactive leadership on climate
Gebru Jember Endalew has been involved in UN negotiations on climate change since 2008 as a core member of the Ethiopian negotiating team. Last…
Turning on the heat
Photo: GEORGE MALLORY Unprecedented in recorded history, there was a 100 degree C difference in temperature between the northern and southern…
Climate damage
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIClimate change is global, it does not respect national boundaries. Neither should its solution. The only way we can…