Furthermore, an alarming increase in farm product import in recent years and months, and over-reliance on limited major food products such as rice, wheat, potato, and corn for staple food has led to a loss of nutritional diversity from the daily diet and at the same time, loss of crop species diversity from the agricultural system, The high hills, and mountains of Nepal, have been facing a food de. [...] Although numerous labour mobility, 8.7% decline in rice production programs were implemented to increase the of Nepal in 2021, a worldwide increase in the cost production and achieve national food security in of chemical fertilizer and petroleum, and recent the past, timely identification of policy imposition of 20% tariffs on rice exports by India bottlenecks in broadening staple food base, (Asia. [...] The following policy recommendations are that food and nutrition insecurity is more prevalent discussed in this policy brief after reviewing in the hills and mountains of the Hindu Kush prominent published research and review papers, Himalayan region than in the plains In the case of reports, and newspaper articles. [...] The overdependence on It would be better for the public sector to work imported grains and food has made food jointly with the private sector and develop the production and supply systems in Nepal capacity of the private sector to perform these vulnerable. [...] It should allocation of resources for promoting also be based on farm socioeconomics, agro- agrobiodiversity conservation, farming of local ecological conditions, and institutional settings of species and varieties of crops and livestock, the mountain households to enhance food security, implementing regulation on sustainable management of crop biodiversity, and agro- harvesting of forest-based tr.
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