Mandates
National Agricultural Environment Research Center is mandated to accomplish the following objectives,
To conduct basic and strategic research for environment and climate resilient sustainable agriculture with a special emphasis on rainfed agriculture and small-scale farmers.
To impart training on agriculture-environment inter-relationships.
To provide advisory and consultancy services on environment monitoring, assessment, and climate change in agriculture.
To coordinate with local, national and international organizations for making Nepalese agriculture more resilient to environmental degradation and climate change.
Research Strategy
Climate change adaptation and mitigation
To develop and disseminate adaptation technologies to enhance the resilience of agriculture to the current and future climatic risks.
To develop technologies for carbon sequestration and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions.
To assess the vulnerability of productivity and quality of crops and livestock to climate change.
To develop decision support systems and policy guidelines for managing agriculture in climate change scenarios.
Environmental impact and mitigation
To assess the impacts of soil, water and air pollution on agriculture and vice versa.
To evaluate carbon, water and nitrogen footprints of agriculture in different agro-climatic zones.
To develop strategies for managing pollution impacts on agriculture.
To evaluate ecosystem services for conventional and emerging agricultural practices.
Capacity building and policy formulation
Training on environmental monitoring, climate change adaptation, GHG mitigation, N and C management and simulation modeling.
Policy formulation for climate change adaptation, ecosystem services, low carbon agriculture and carbon trading.