SEN engages in comprehensive multidisciplinary research projects, with a special focus on sectors pivotal to environmental change such as biodiversity loss, climate dynamics, hydrology, agriculture, livestock, and hydroclimatic data and information.
South Asia’s prosperity relies on dependable monsoon patterns. However, climate change is changing these cycles, leading to more frequent and severe floods, droughts, and landslides. These di...
Although Nepal is a small and landlocked country, it plays a significant role in South Asia’s water dynamics due to its glaciated Himalayas range making it the world’s second-richest country (a...
Nepal is home to plenty of rivers fed by glacial melt from Himalayan water-induced disasters. This challenge is particularly acute in the Karnali province, the largest province of Nepal, where desp...
The Small Earth Nepal (SEN) is implementing a project “Empowering Mountain Communities through Fog Harvesting for Sustainable Water Management” at Thade and Jantardhap village in Okhaldhunga. T...
There have been erratic weather patterns and Nepal is unprepared to cope with them. In recent years, Nepal has experienced an increase in frequency and intensity of droughts, floods, and landslides...
The Small Earth Nepal (SEN) in collaboration with IHE Delft, Tribhuvan University (TU), Tharu Women UPliftment Center (TWUC), and Karnali Integrated Rural Developmen...
Urban ponds are prone to eutrophication problems that act as a source of water for irrigation, household chores like washing, bathing, recreational activities, and aquatic ecosystems. The floating ...
Glaciers are found to be highly sensitive to changes in climate. Studies suggest that climate changes alter the magnitude and seas...
There is an urgent need to develop local level weather forecasts application for the agriculture sector in Nepal. Most of the times the forecasts that are available cannot be used directly by the f...
Water is one of the most pressing issues the world is facing today and there are two aspects of water: deficit and deluge, which can both affect the ecosystem and livelihood in negative ways. This ...
The project aims to understand the climate and changing climate of the region with particular focus on water resources and its consequences to people and society. Observed hydro-meteorological data...
Project Background: An overview of data trend from 1983 to 2000 (18 years), and from 2001 to 2013 (13 years) show the national scenario that losses due to epidemics, the majo...
The Small Earth Nepal (SEN) is undertaking a 3 years research project entitled “Adaptation for Climate Change by Livestock Smallholders in Gandaki River Basin” with a joint collaboration of the...
Widespread land degradation augmented by climate change (CC) has seriously eroded the production capacity of hilly areas across countries leading to food and nutrition insecurity. Though the assess...
Flood events have been more intense and frequent in most of the Asian countries in the recent decades creating hardship to ecosystems and livelihoods. Therefore, estimation of loss and damage due t...
This project includes comprehensive aspects of water including development of water security maps of core areas of Katmandu valley and its peripheral areas, which have limited energy and water reso...
Climate change is a growing food security concern for countries in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Meghna (GBM) basin; it is expected to have a direct impact on crop yield as a result of changes in temperat...