National Livestock Policy of Nepal: Needs and Opportunities

Agriculture

Upendra B. Pradhanang³  Soni M. Pradhanang⁴  Arhan Sthapit¹  Nir Y. Krakauer⁵  Ajay Jha⁶  Tarendra Lakhankar² 

[1] Department of Management, Public Youth Campus, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, 44600 Nepal; E-Mail:;NOAA-Cooperative Remote Sensing Science & Technology (CREST) Center, The City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY, 10031 USA; E-Mail:;Shankar Dev Campus, Faculty of Management, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, 44600 Nepal; E-Mail:;Department of Geosciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, 02881 USA; E-Mail:;Department of Civil Engineering, The City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY, 10031 USA; E-Mail:;Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, College of Agricultural Sciences, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523 USA; E-Mail:

关键词: livestock policy;    federal structure;    SWOT;    Nepal;    livelihood;    climate change;   

DOI  :  10.3390/agriculture5010103

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

This paper describes Nepal’s national livestock policies and considers how they can be improved to help meet the pressing national challenges of economic development, equity, poverty alleviation, gender mainstreaming, inclusion of marginalized and underprivileged communities, and climate vulnerability. Nepal is in the process of transforming its government from a unitary system to a federal democratic structure through the new constitution expected by 2015, offering the opportunity to bring a new set of priorities and stakeholders to policymaking. Nepal’s livestock subsector comes most directly within the purview of the National Agricultural Policy 2004, Agro-Business Policy, 2006 and Agricultural Sectoral Operating Policies of the Approach Paper to 13th Plan, 2012/13–2015/16 policy instruments. We systematically review these and other livestock-related national policies through analysis of their Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT). We conclude with the need to formulate a separate, integrated national livestock policy so that Nepal can sustainably increase livestock productivity and achieve diversification, commercialization and competitiveness of the livestock subsector within the changing national and international contexts.

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