Another Possible Cost Of COVID-19: Returning Workers May Lead To Deforestation In Nepal – Analysis

By Jefferson Fox, Phanwin Yokying, Naya Sharma Paudel, and Ram Chhetri*

In rural Nepal, 10 years of conflict between government forces and Maoist fighters, followed by a series of devastating earthquakes, forced many young people to migrate to urban areas or overseas in search of employment. Farm sizes remained the same, but...