Interview with Professor Laya Prasad Uprety

2020

is working with the Nepal Agricultural Market Development Programme (NAMDP) (Sahaj). He previously worked as Project Manager with the Nepal Madhesh Foundation (NEMAF), a nongovernmental organization (NGO) working in the area of public education, youth migration and local governance in the plains of Nepal. NEMAF was one of the partners on this research project. He has an MPhil in Sociology from Tribhuvan University, Nepal, and has a decade's experience in development research. He has co-edited more than a dozen books and journals published by NEMAF, and contributed to the publication of more than half a dozen journal articles. Jenisha Maharjan currently works as a Senior Project Officer at NEMAF, Kathmandu, Nepal. She holds a master's degree in Gender Studies from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. In her previous role as a gender researcher for NEMAF, she played a key role in the fieldwork for this study. She has worked for a range of NGOs in Nepal that dealt with disability and health issues at a local as well as advocacy level.

2001

Human Ecology

In 2016, I returned to Chimkhola, a village whose farming system I had studied in detail in the mid-1980s. Living conditions, child mortality, education levels had all improved greatly. Remissions from family members working overseas were supplanting subsistence farming. Community resources include agricultural fields and forests from 1600 to 4000 m on the southeast flank of Dhaulagiri Himal. I seek to preserve an account of the complex farming system the community used in 1986, describe how it appears to be dissolving, and speculate on the future. Unlike many parts of Nepal, in 2016 the people of Chimkhola farmed without industrial inputs, as they did in 1986. However, they reduced the area they were farming. It seems likely that, if recent trends continue, the communal system will collapse.

Peasantry in Nepal a Study on Subsistence Farmers and Their Activities Pertaining to Food Security, 2003

Sustenance of resource management and food securing essentially means sustainable use and management of resources available to people, living in and around a vicinity of a geographically set region integrated ecologically, socially and culturally, in production activities, i.e., farming, so as to rationally conserve the environment, taking in to consideration the future use. Sustenance of resource management would mean appraisal of traditional ways of resource uses, continued for centuries and even millennia, but often prone to be neglected in this modernizing world. Appraisal of traditional ways would not only imply the preservation but also include "transformation", as per need, of the traditional ways, making choices and systematic arrangements. The set of conditions for such an appraisal would be, common interest based on the needs, easier access, cost efficiency, joint accountability, internalization of the external interventions chosen, and they should be bundled into a system, with subsystems if needed, rather than left as individual components, in which case it would hardly be effective to make a difference. The prerequisites for this would be, spontaneity, joint ownership, participatory decision making and concept of mutual aid based on community organic network. These prerequisites are also the norms of the society.

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