A Synopsis of Farmland Abandonment and Its Driving Factors in Nepal

doi:10.3390/land9030084

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	A Synopsis of Farmland Abandonment and Its Driving Factors in Nepal
	Chaudhary Suresh 1,2,3,4; Wang Yukuan 2,4; Dixit Amod Mani 1; Khanal Narendra Raj 5; Xu Pei 2,4; Fu Bin 2,4; Yan Kun 2,4; Liu Qin 2,4; Lu Yafeng 2,4; Li Ming 2,4
刊名	LAND
	2020-03-01
卷号	9 期号:3 页码:84
关键词	rural migration production structure rural-urban transition agricultural restructuring mountain development
DOI	10.3390/land9030084
通讯作者	Wang, Yukuan(wangyukuan@imde.ac.cn)
产权排序	1
文献子类	Review
英文摘要	Farmland abandonment is considered as an important phenomenon for changing eco-environmental and sociocultural landscapes of mountainous rural landscape. Many studies have analyzed farmland abandonment, its driving factors, geophysical processes and consequences at landscape: however, very few have focused on mountainous developing countries such as in Nepal, which is a rapidly urbanizing country suffering from serious farmland abandonment. Therefore, our study was an attempt to (i) assess the spatiotemporal extent of farmland abandonment in Nepal, (ii) explore driving factors of farmland abandonment, and (iii) discuss on the eco-environmental and sociocultural consequences in Nepal. We reviewed various literature, documents, and national reports to obtain a dataset pertaining to the overall status of farmland use and changes along with political and socioeconomic changes, economic development processes, and policy and governance in Nepal. Our results showed that farmland abandonment is widespread; however, it is more prevalent in the hilly and mountainous regions of Nepal. A total of 9,706,000 ha, accounting for 23.9% of the total cultivated farmland in Nepal, was abandoned during the period of 2001 to 2010. The driving factors included population growth, scattered distribution of settlements, urbanization, socio-economic development, poor access to physical services, and poor implementation of agriculture development policies. Furthermore, the increasing extent of natural disasters, malaria eradication, land reform and resettlement programs, the complex system of land ownership, land fragmentation, political instabilities, and the intensification of trading in agricultural products also acted as drivers of farmland abandonment in Nepal. Farmland abandonment generates negative effects on rural societies eco-environmentally and sociologically. Abandoned plots were subjected to different forms of geomorphic damage (e.g. landslide, debris flows, gully formation, sinkhole development etc.). Farmland landscape fragmented into a group of smaller interspersed patches. Such patches were opened for grassland. Furthermore, farmland abandonment also has effects on the local population and the whole society in terms of the production of goods (e.g., foods, feed, fiber), as well as services provided by the multi-functionality (e.g. sociocultural practices, values and norms) of the agricultural landscape. Therefore, this study plays an important role in planning and implementing eco-environmental management and social development processes in Nepal.
电子版国际标准刊号	2073-445X
资助项目	135 strategic program of the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Science[SDS-135-1703] ; International talent program of the Chinese Academy of the Sciences[2019 VCA 0026] ; Chinese Academy of Sciences-theWorld Academy of Sciences (CAS-TWAS)
WOS关键词	AGRICULTURAL LAND ABANDONMENT ; SOIL-EROSION ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; COVER CHANGE ; MANAGEMENT-PRACTICES ; FOREST REGROWTH ; IGBP DISCOVER ; IMPACTS ; MOUNTAINS ; LANDSCAPE
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	MDPI
WOS记录号	WOS:000523663000029
资助机构	135 strategic program of the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Science ; International talent program of the Chinese Academy of the Sciences ; Chinese Academy of Sciences-theWorld Academy of Sciences (CAS-TWAS)
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.imde.ac.cn/handle/131551/34236]
专题	成都山地灾害与环境研究所_山区发展研究中心
通讯作者	Wang Yukuan
作者单位	1.Natl Soc Earthquake Technol Nepal, POB 13667, Kathmandu Lalitpur, Nepal; 2.Three Gorges Project Ecol Environm Monitoring Sys, Wanzhou Key Reg Ecol & Environm Monitoring Stn, Wanzhou 404020, Peoples R China; 3.UCAS, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China; 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Mt Hazards & Environm, Chengdu 610041, Peoples R China; 5.Tribhuvan Univ, Cent Dept Geog, Univ Campus,POB 44613, Kirtipur, Nepal
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chaudhary Suresh,Wang Yukuan,Dixit Amod Mani,et al. A Synopsis of Farmland Abandonment and Its Driving Factors in Nepal[J]. LAND,2020,9(3):84.
APA	Chaudhary Suresh.,Wang Yukuan.,Dixit Amod Mani.,Khanal Narendra Raj.,Xu Pei.,...&Li Ming.(2020).A Synopsis of Farmland Abandonment and Its Driving Factors in Nepal.LAND,9(3),84.
MLA	Chaudhary Suresh,et al."A Synopsis of Farmland Abandonment and Its Driving Factors in Nepal".LAND 9.3(2020):84.