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The Case for Terrain-Smart Agricultural Policy in Nepal

Treating all of rural Nepal as one undifferentiated migration problem risks sending the same blunt policy tool to districts with completely different underlying causes. A hill district and a Terai district with the same migration rate can have entirely different farming futures, and the current policy conversation rarely makes that distinction.

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The Case for Terrain-Smart Agricultural Policy in Nepal

by Prasanna Thapa | November 2, 2026

Treating all of rural Nepal as one undifferentiated migration problem risks sending the same blunt policy tool to districts with completely different underlying causes. A hill district and a Terai district with the same migration rate can have entirely different farming futures, and the current policy conversation rarely makes that distinction.

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