In Nepal, 27% of GDP is contributed by the agriculture sector with 65.56% of households depending upon agriculture for employment. However, 51.8% of households are still food insecure and 25.2% are under the poverty line. Given these facts, it is interesting to watch how the economic growth and food system will go forward, despite the paradoxical history of development-modest growth but brisk poverty reduction has already been experienced. While literature noted that the transition to a food system is rapid for developing countries, very limited analysis linking the food system to its drivers and its consequences exists in the context of Nepal. The study examined food system transition using the secondary data from different sources and analyzing it through a conceptual framework of the food system. The study showed the contemporary food security issue is disparity in food access among the peoples driven by the poverty gap. The trends and scenarios shown in results revealed that the tendencies of food system drivers are on positive sides, but the structural foundation of agriculture (land issues, labor migration, mechanization, adaptations, etc.) is not so strong. This situation has created a serious question on the transition of the food system in Nepal. For this, the policy priorities are imperative to be institutionalized at all three levels of government-federal, state and local, and need to be concerted to transform the food system.

No abstract

District Livestock Service Office (DLSO), Lamjung has been providing the grants for raising life standard of the poor farmers, women, ethnic groups through quality production and their commercialization in different sectors via goat, dairy, pig and poultry on individual and group basis. A study was conducted among the farmers who were supported by DLSO to identify the marketing condition of their product, the problems they faced along with further expectation from DLSO in 18 VDCs and municipalities from February to June 2017. Data was collected by semi structured questionnaire among 142 respondents through purposive sampling and analysis was done by Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS 20.0) and Microsoft Excel. The study revealed that 79% of farmers had good access of market and they could sell meat (70%) easily followed by milk product. Similarly, maximum farmers (76.8%) sold their product by themselves in which Janajati people govern 46.8%, with 30.3% Dalit and 22.9% Brahmin. The main problem seen in livestock rearing was transportation (50%) followed by price fluctuation (13.4%) and storage (8.5%). In cattle farming, the major problem was in storage (60%) of dairy products. Most of the farmers expect to access the safe transportation (59.2%) for selling their products from DLSO. Poultry raising farmers (14.8%) had expected to promote village tourism while the pig rearing farmers (12%) wanted to have proper management of market within the district.