There are at least two urgent calls that invite the discussion on youths in agriculture. The first call for the urgency of attracting youth to agriculture is for the future of agriculture. The average age of farmers all over the world has been increasing especially in recent years.
We are in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution with the predominance of artificial intelligence where technology dominates and controls a big chunk of people’s daily life.
The history of agroecology is interwoven with the development of agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals. According to Alteri (1995) [1], agroecology is practised globally using indigenous tribal knowledge close to nature. Some have long associated agroecology with conventional farming practices, however, these positions are imperfect. In my opinion, it is built on indigenous tribal wisdom and integrates all the knowledge that has been collected since the beginning of agriculture, nearly 10,000 years.
Nepal’s 2015 constitution mandates scientific land reforms for peasants, but issues still persist.
In 1996, peasant organisations and social movements like La Via Campesina introduced the concept of Food Sovereignty into the global policy circle.
This article provides a thorough analysis of the historical background of the constitutionalization of Food Sovereignty, the geopolitical and historical setting of the peasant movement in Nepal as well as the impact of Food sovereignty law on National policies and programs.
The article traces the historical significance of April 17th , from the 1996 Eldorado dos Carajás massacre to the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants (UNDROP) in 2018.