The livelihood options of landless households of far western Nepal are wage labor, farming and seasonal migration to India. Food sufficiency is barely enough for 0-3 months a year for most. When food is scarce, they cope by borrowing money, buying food, occasional wager labor as domestic servants, less popular and cheaper or wild food, skipping meals and eating less. These options are embedded with social relation in terms of class, caste and gender and social institutions.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/livelihood-options-landless-agrarian-society-case-study-far-western-nepal
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/purna-nepali
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/kailash-nath-pyakuryal
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/sagar-raj-sharma
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/international-journal-rural-studies
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/landless
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nepal
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/south-asia
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rural-poverty
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-ownership
