A member of the Bhimeshwori Sustainable Farming Group at her agroforestry farm in Kavre, Nepal. Image by Abhaya Raj Josh / Mongabay. The new legislation introduced the controversial concept of ...

Farmers are preparing the land and removing debris with earthmovers. Some are using tractors to reclaim fields, while others plant potatoes.

Floods in September in central Nepal killed 224 people with southern Lalitpur and Kavre being hardest hit. The Rosi Valley in Kavre was devastated, and settlements swept away entire slopes. But an ...

Nepal’s National Human Rights Commission told the NewsHour that at least 150 people sold their kidney from a single village in the Kavre District, but only three cases were officially reported.