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07Dec
Ensuring soil heath and cropping systems sustainability in India
More than 80% of global agriculture is rainfed. In India’s 67% of 143 million hectares of net cultivated area is rainfed, with over 90% of grains and pulses being produced [...]
Read more Ensuring soil heath and cropping systems sustainability in India03Aug
IPCC Working Group II Meeting in Kathmandu: Will the flood outside the meeting hall influence the Report pages inside?
By Dr Hemant Ojha In July 2019, IPCC Working Group II met in Nepal, hosted by the government of Nepal and International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). [...]
Read more IPCC Working Group II Meeting in Kathmandu: Will the flood outside the meeting hall influence the Report pages inside?27Apr
How Can Nepal’s Community Forestry be Adapted to New Federal System?
By Dr Hemant R Ojha When Maoists rebellion was attacking all aspects of state and society in the decadal war the sparked in 1996, community forestry (CF) was one of the [...]
Read more How Can Nepal’s Community Forestry be Adapted to New Federal System?31Oct
Strengthening social responsibility in transnational trade (‘S’ factor in ESG)
Dr Binod Chapagain As data shows, 70% of cocoa comes from West Africa alone, and cocoa grown in the Ivory Coast makes up 43% of the total world cocoa and 60% of the country’s [...]
Read more Strengthening social responsibility in transnational trade (‘S’ factor in ESG)13Oct
Entrepreneurship is the Key to Nepal’s Prosperity
Major political battle is over, and economic journey begins Currently there is a hot political debate on whether Nepal can sustain new federalism. The debate mainly [...]
Read more Entrepreneurship is the Key to Nepal’s Prosperity12Oct
How can Nepal become food secure?
Dr Jagadish Timsina A definition of food security proposed by World Food Summit in 1996 emphasized that a country would achieve food security when it’s all [...]
Read more How can Nepal become food secure?14Sep
Good climate finance is not enough: we need climate finance that is gender responsive
By Dr Basundhara Bhattarai As we move further into post-Paris climate policy world, climate finance debate has occupied a centre stage. This is a good thing. However, most of [...]
Read more Good climate finance is not enough: we need climate finance that is gender responsive09Sep
Diaspora for SDGs
By Dr Hemant R Ojha The value of remittance from diaspora is already three times higher than international development aid from the developed countries. Yet, [...]
Read more Diaspora for SDGs09Sep
PhD education requires a radical improvement
By Dr Hemant Ojha @ojhahemant1 PhD education is in crisis, creating distress and misery in the lives of many who embark on this problematic educational offering coming from [...]
Read more PhD education requires a radical improvement24Aug
Bridging Research and Practice for Catalysing Change
Bridging Research and Practice for Catalysing Change By Dr Hemant R Ojha @ojhahemant1 Is it possible to do a good research as well as become an agent of change? James Watson [...]
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