Drivers and consequences of agricultural land abandonment and its reutilisation pathways: A systematic review

YR Subedi, P Kristiansen, O Cacho - Environmental Development, 2022 - Elsevier
Agricultural land abandonment is a complex, multidimensional and non-linear global
phenomenon driven by multiple factors and with contrasting impacts on agrobiodiversity …

Transnational labour migration and livelihoods in rural Asia: Tracing patterns of agrarian and forest change

R Sunam, K Barney, JF McCarthy - Geoforum, 2021 - Elsevier
While scholars and policy makers have increasingly focused on transnational labour
migration (TLM) in Asia, few comparative studies have analysed how TLM shapes poverty …

On the Coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia

D Suhardiman, J Rigg, M Bandur… - Journal of Ethnic and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Positioning migrants as quintessential globalisation subjects, this paper reveals how the
COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the ambivalent positioning of migration as a pathway for …

[HTML][HTML] Examining forest transition and collective action in Nepal's community forestry

BH Poudyal, D Paudel, K Marquardt, S Khatri - Land Use Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Nepal is going through a major socio-economic transition in rural areas and hence in forest
management practices, leading to changes in and evolution of new forest-people …

Agricultural land abandonment in the hill agro-ecological region of Nepal: Analysis of extent, drivers and impact of change

YR Subedi, P Kristiansen, O Cacho… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Despite widely reported trends of agricultural land abandonment across many parts of the
globe, this land use change phenomenon is relatively new in the context of Nepal. In recent …

[HTML][HTML] Geostatistical modeling approach for studying total soil nitrogen and phosphorus under various land uses of North-Western Himalayas

O Bashir, SA Bangroo, SS Shafai, N Senesi… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
The distribution of total soil nitrogen (TSN) and total soil phosphorus (TSP) plays a pivotal
role in sha** soil quality, fertility, agricultural practices, and environmental balance …

[BOOK][B] More than rural: Textures of Thailand's agrarian transformation

J Rigg - 2019 - degruyter.com
In the 1970s, Thailand was develo** but poor and largely agrarian. By the 1980s it had
become the fastest growing large economy in the world and, in the process, made the …

Outmigration and land-use change: A case study from the middle hills of Nepal

B Kc, D Race - Land, 2019 - mdpi.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding rural outmigration and agricultural land use change in the Gandaki Basin, Nepal

A Maharjan, I Kochhar, VS Chitale, A Hussain, G Gioli - Applied Geography, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Rural-urban migration and its effect on land transfer in rural China

D Xu, Z Yong, X Deng, L Zhuang, C Qing - Land, 2020 - mdpi.com
Labor force rural-urban migration will lead to changes to the land use patterns of farmers.
Using the survey data on dynamic migration of the Chinese labor force in 2014, iv-probit and …