Foreword
The agriculture sector contributes about 27 percent to the country’s GDP and nearly 70% of total employment in Nepal. The development of agriculture and livestock is key to developing the national economy and achieving prosperity. The agriculture sector is one of the most climate vulnerable, and we have already witnessed its impacts and can see how it will affect Nepal in the future.
Over the years, the Government of Nepal has shifted from a reactive to a proactive approach to climate change adaptation and has undertaken several initiatives to strengthen legal frameworks, planning and budgeting, institutional capacities and partnerships. The Government of Nepal is formulating its National Adaptation Plan (NAP), with an aim to reduce the country’s vulnerability to climate change and to facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation in policies, programmes and activities across all sectors and levels.
The project titled Supporting Nepal to Integrate Agriculture Sector into National Adaptation Plan (NAP-Ag) was implemented following an agreement between the then Ministry of Agricultural Development and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on 21 June 2016. This synthesis report Road map for Adaptation Planning in Nepal’s Agriculture Sectors is part of this endeavor.
The roadmap summarizes lessons learnt from the NAP-Ag Project based on desk studies, workshops, interviews and consultations with the respective stakeholders. This document describes the country context and background, findings from the progress assessment, gap analysis of integrating agriculture in adaptation planning, pathways to address identified adaptation planning gaps and presents an implementation
timeline. The planning staff of MoALD should implement the reform required within the agriculture sector to integrate adaptation concerns through regular agriculture sector development plans.
Agriculture