While scholars and policy makers have increasingly focused on transnational labour
migration (TLM) in Asia, few comparative studies have analysed how TLM shapes poverty …

Farmland abandonment is considered as an important phenomenon for changing eco-
environmental and sociocultural landscapes of mountainous rural landscape. Many studies …

Diversification of livelihoods is a commonly applied strategy for co** with economic and
environmental shocks and instrumental in poverty reduction. In this paper, we have …

Understanding household livelihood strategies is pivotal to minimize rural poverty in the
least developed countries like Nepal. This study is an attempt to assess livelihood strategies …

Smallholder farmers in the mid-hills of Nepal are facing an acute labor shortage due to out-
migration which, in general, has affected the capacity to achieve timely crop establishment …

In the agricultural sector, labour shortage, and increase in wages resulting from out-
migration, and the necessity to employ sustainable intensification practices to minimise the …

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 …

The global COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented disruption to lives and
livelihoods around the world. These disruptions have brought into sharp focus experiences …

In Nepal, changing demographic patterns are leading to changes in land use. The high level
of outmigration of men in the hills of Kaski District, Western Development Region of Nepal, is …

The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected the agrarian and remittance-based
economy of Nepal. Dwindling the employment opportunities and disrupting the food …