Pathways for building resilience to COVID-19 pandemic and revitalizing the Nepalese agriculture sector
Pathways for building resilience to COVID-19 pandemic and revitalizing the Nepalese agriculture sector
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DOI：
10.1016/j.agsy.2020.103022
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发表时间：
2021-02-01
影响因子：
6.6
通讯作者：
Rola-Rubzen, Maria Fay
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作者：
Magar, Dinesh Babu Thapa;Pun, Sirish;Rola-Rubzen, Maria Fay
COVID-19疫情严重影响尼泊尔的农业及汇款经济。这一流行病减少了就业机会，扰乱了粮食生产和分配渠道，进一步加剧了失业和粮食不安全状况。因此，向受大流行病影响的家庭提供就业机会和生计支持变得越来越具有挑战性，但对政府来说是一个必要的优先事项。因此，要建立一个可持续和有弹性的经济，创造就业机会，提高农业生产力，振兴受限制的农业部门至关重要，因为它仍然分别占就业和国内生产总值的65%和24.3%。在此背景下，本文件提出了重建和振兴尼泊尔农业部门增长的主要途径和优先行动，同时应对这一流行病对创造就业和创收机会构成的挑战。我们强调，需要规模适当的战略，计划和计划，以建立生产，供应链和农业综合企业系统的弹性。我们的结论是，政府应该首先集中于有针对性的优先干预措施，以受流行病影响的农民和农业企业家，并加强他们的生产，竞争力和适应能力。在此之后，需要制定长期战略，如发展农业基础设施、创新政策、法律的文书和体制安排，包括根据尼泊尔的联邦结构加强最近成立的地方政府。
The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected the agrarian and remittance-based economy of Nepal. Dwindling the employment opportunities and disrupting the food production and distribution channels, the pandemic has further exacerbated the unemployment and food insecurity situation. Providing employment opportunities and livelihood support to pandemic-affected households has, therefore, become increasingly challenging but a necessary priority to the government. Therefore, to build a sustainable and resilient economy that generates employment and enhance agricultural productivity, revitalization of the constraints-ridden agriculture sector is essential as it still contributes 65% and 24.3% to employment and Gross Domestic Product, respectively. Against this backdrop, this paper presents major pathways and priority actions to rebuild and revitalize the growth of the agricultural sector in Nepal while addressing the challenge posed by the pandemic to generate employment and income-earning opportunities. We emphasize the need for scale-appropriate strategies, programs and plans to build resilience of production, supply chains, and agribusiness systems. We conclude that the government should initially focus on targeted priority interventions to the pandemic-affected farmers and agro-entrepreneurs, and strengthen their productive, competitive, and adaptive capacities. These need to be followed by long-term strategies such as development of agricultural infrastructure, innovative policies, legal instruments, and institutional arrangements, including strengthening of the recently established local governments in line with the federal structure of Nepal.