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Agriculture Practice in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: Adaptive Strategy or Sustainable Livelihood?
Geographic perspective on questions like where the best places are to locate farming practices; are the farmerFarmers’s decision-making and urban policyUrban policies disjunctive; and how it influences sustainableSustainable urban developmentDevelopment, etc. requires attentive analysis of urban land useLand use and the dynamic interactions between humans and their environmentEnvironment as a function in space and of place. This study intends to explore the characteristics of urban agricultural practices and investigate strategies and decision-making of urban farmersFarmers in changing land useLand use context in Kathmandu Valley. Agricultural practice is irrefutably one of the prominent activities, though with increasing urbanizationUrbanization, the most affected among all other resources is agricultural land. Increasing urbanizationUrbanization has changed the structure of the farming productionProduction system. Urban farmersFarmers are moving from traditionalTraditional to modern and subsistence to mixed and commercial agricultureAgricultureproductionProduction systems. Spatial variability is notable in farming practice; commercial farming is dominant next to urban built-up in the valley floor followed by mixed farming over the foothills, while subsistence farming is located distant to built-up and over upper and middle hill slopes. Less influence of external structures such as national/regional market economy and more individual decision-making are evident in existing spatial agricultural structures. Thus, urbanizationUrbanization process has affected both the farm area and the farming operation. Urban farmersFarmers are adapting to the effects of urbanizationUrbanization through change and modification in farming operations. Urban agricultureUrban agriculture in the study area at present is both demand-based and traditional. RiskRisk perception and uncertainty is context-specific, and the decision is made within that specific context. To adjust to the pace and direction of the urbanizationUrbanization process, and to sustain their livelihoodLivelihood, urban farmersFarmers make tactical and strategic decisions.
Agriculture Practice in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: Adaptive Strategy or Sustainable Livelihood?
Geographic perspective on questions like where the best places are to locate farming practices; are the farmerFarmers’s decision-making and urban policyUrban policies disjunctive; and how it influences sustainableSustainable urban developmentDevelopment, etc. requires attentive analysis of urban land useLand use and the dynamic interactions between humans and their environmentEnvironment as a function in space and of place. This study intends to explore the characteristics of urban agricultural practices and investigate strategies and decision-making of urban farmersFarmers in changing land useLand use context in Kathmandu Valley. Agricultural practice is irrefutably one of the prominent activities, though with increasing urbanizationUrbanization, the most affected among all other resources is agricultural land. Increasing urbanizationUrbanization has changed the structure of the farming productionProduction system. Urban farmersFarmers are moving from traditionalTraditional to modern and subsistence to mixed and commercial agricultureAgricultureproductionProduction systems. Spatial variability is notable in farming practice; commercial farming is dominant next to urban built-up in the valley floor followed by mixed farming over the foothills, while subsistence farming is located distant to built-up and over upper and middle hill slopes. Less influence of external structures such as national/regional market economy and more individual decision-making are evident in existing spatial agricultural structures. Thus, urbanizationUrbanization process has affected both the farm area and the farming operation. Urban farmersFarmers are adapting to the effects of urbanizationUrbanization through change and modification in farming operations. Urban agricultureUrban agriculture in the study area at present is both demand-based and traditional. RiskRisk perception and uncertainty is context-specific, and the decision is made within that specific context. To adjust to the pace and direction of the urbanizationUrbanization process, and to sustain their livelihoodLivelihood, urban farmersFarmers make tactical and strategic decisions.
Agriculture Practice in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: Adaptive Strategy or Sustainable Livelihood?
Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences
Anand, Subhash (editor) / Bhattacharyya, Rituparna (editor) / Das, Madhushree (editor) / Das, Tulshi Kumar (editor) / Pradhan, Pushkar K. (editor) / Shrestha, Shobha (author)
2025-03-04
19 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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