Research
Modern lifestyle, Non Veg Food and Its Impact on Environmental Aspects
Background : Human’s life style has changed dramatically over the time. The consumption of meat and meat production has increased radically through out the world. Global demand for food is expected to increase by 70 % by 2050(FAO, 2009). This excessive growth in meat production/consumption brings several impacts on environmental resources. The paper discusses change in people’s lifestyle and consumption pattern of non veg food all over the world .The consequences of meat production (live stock farming) on water, land use, rain forest and climate change are discussed. Materials and methods: Data from U.S Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agriculture Service, 2010 is used for meat consumption analysis. Global data of 1965-2005 obtained from the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization FAOSTAT livestock database is used for projection.
Determinants of Age at First Sexual Intercourse for Youths of Nepal
A Comparative Analysis of Gender Related Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measures of Nepal
Human development paradigm is one of the emerging development models which is widely accepted all over the world. This paper tries to shed light on the methodology applied by Nepal for calculating GDI and GEM and it also focuses on the trend and pattern of GDI and GEM in Nepal. The primary objective of this study is to examine the change in pattern of GDI and GEM of Nepal over the last 10 years from 1996 to 2006. This study is based on the secondary source of information collected from the Nepal Human Development Reports (NHDR) 1998 to 2009A.D. The study indicates that desegregation of GDI and GEM at sub national levels has enormous differences in terms of human development especially from gender perspective. The level of both, GDI and GEM has increased over the time (the value of GDI has improved from 0.267 in 1996 to 0.499 in 2006. Likewise, the value of GEM has also increased form 0.191 in 1996 to 0.496 in 2006) but still it has not reached in satisfactory level, particularly while comparing the status of these two indicators in development regions , there is wide gap. This study can be effective for policy intervention and further planning for women empowerment.
