Role of Sustainable agriculture development in poverty and hunger elimination in Nepal

The paper aims to discuss the relationship between sustainable agriculture development and poverty and attempt to suggest some insights to overcome poverty and hunger through secondary literature. Despite the advancement in science and technology, 736 million people still live in extreme poverty, which means about 10% of the world population is in extreme poverty as per the UNglobalcompact report. More than half of the poor population lives in rural Nepal. The Multi-dimensional Poverty Index in rural areas in Nepal is 28 percent compared with urban areas (12.3 percent). The rank of Nepal’s Global Hunger Index in 2021 is 76 out of 114 countries. Despite some improvements in hunger and poverty reduction over three decades, there is still a lot of work to overcome it. Poverty has largely existed in agriculture-dominant societies in developing countries like Nepal. Interestingly, agriculture provides employment opportunities to 65% of the total population while it contributes only 27% of the GDP in Nepal. However, the literature suggests that agriculture could not yield enough production and income, despite efforts. Agriculture in Nepal is still found in substantial form. In these circumstances, sustainable agriculture development is critical to developing entrepreneurship in the agricultural field in order to fulfill SDG’s goal to end poverty and hunger by 2030.