Week 13

 Nepal is a country with considerable social and geographical diversity and faces a number of serious land loss issues The country's main challenges are the increasing population and declining agricultural productivity. Nepal's geology is governed by a complex sequence of historical events which resulted in the extensive rise of the Himalayas. Because of these occurrences, the mountains and hills are young, unconsolidated and fragile as a result of tectonic activity. In Nepal, Soil erosion is a major problem which causes the loss of topsoil and fertility in mountainous terrain in agricultural land. Soil erosion poses a huge threat given the face that Nepal is an agricultural dependent economy contributing over 25 per cent to their national GDP. Agricultural soils have degraded over time and growing pressure has been put on the use of forest resources to meet the basic food needs of the people. A mitigating factor that stirs soil erosion problems is the constant rainfall Nepal has to endure. Large amounts of rainfall harms in more ways than one. Large amounts of rain has the scale to damage land throughout and also overflow many areas stirring up floods and even worse provoke landslides. Such a disaster causes life loss, damages to multiple bridges, highways, and irrigation channels. Around the same time, flooding overflows several villages and kills farm crops on the plain.
Citations:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/425750/nepal-gdp-distribution-across-economic-sectors/

https://www.cimmyt.org/news/new-digital-maps-to-support-soil-fertility-management-in-nepal/