Publications

In a paper published at agronomy, Dr Jagadish Timsina demonstrates that organic nutrients alone are not enough to increase crop yields to meet global food demand.

By Prativa Sapkota and colleagues  argue that the contribution of ecology is constrained by politics.

By Basundhara Bhattarai, Ruth Beilin, and Rebecca Ford This paper explores how gender relations are influenced by wider socio-economic changes, and how alterations in gender relations shape responses to climate change. They argue that the prevailing development paradigm reinforces inequitable gender structures in agrobiodiversity management, undermining adaptation to the changing climate.

By Hemant Ojha, Mani Banjade, Ramesh Sunam, Basundhara Bhattarai, Sudeep Jana, Keshab Goutam, and Sindhu Dhungana This paper analyses if participatory policy reform can alter the conventional authority in forest governance. The analysis shows how deliberative politics contributed to the change or continuity of conventional authorities around forest policy and practice. It shows that despite notable participatory policy reform, the conventional authority has become further re-entrenched.

By P Sapkota, Rod Keenan, Jana-Axinja Paschen, and Hemant Ojha The paper shows that social isolation, financial authority and knowledge based supremacy exercised by community elites and public officials are some of the barriers constraining the longterm adaptation of marginalised communities in the hills of Nepal.

By Hemant Ojha, Rebecca Ford, Rod Keenan, Digby Race, Dora Carais Vega, Himlal Baral, and Prativa Sapkota This paper draws on the cases selected from Australia, Indonesia, Mexico, Nepal, and Papua New Guinea to make an important conclusion: Increasingly diverse interests in natural resources such as forests have served to delocalize communities beyond “local” domains. They argue that local community is not a localized entity, and there are multiple cross-scale networks which need to be recognized, as these have profound implications in community-based natural resource management.

By Ramesh Sunam This paper reveals that many poor people have experienced improved livelihoods pursuing a diverse portfolio of agricultural and non‐agricultural activities including labour migration. However, the dispossession of poor people from land and their adverse incorporation into the local and international labour markets continue to perpetuate chronic poverty.

By J. Timsina, J. Wolf, N. Guilpart, L.G.J. van Bussel, P. Grassini, J. vanWart, A. Hossaind, H. Rashid, S. Islamf, and M.K. van Ittersum The paper provides an important scientific assessment of food security situation in Bangladesh focussing on the production of cereals. It estimates indicate that current yields in Bangladesh are not sufficient to meet future food demand due to a combination of expected cropland area reduction and expected grain demand increases. As a result, under various land use change scenarios, SSRs of all cerealswill decrease substantially in 2030 and 2050.