Confronted with adverse physical conditions, marginal landholdings and scarce non-farming employment opportunities, farmers in the Upper Pokhara Valley had opted for temporary emigration as an alternative strategy for fulfilling their subsistence requirements. This had caused somewhat malign effects on watersheds due to dwindling farm management practices and increasing dependency on common resources. Required is a new approach to watershed management especially in areas adversely affected by out-migration of labor force.
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 31, Heft 10, S. 1721-1741
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 31, Heft 10, S. 1721-1741