Food security is a significant issue for many people who live in remote mountain areas around the world. Most of these people are also poor because of the lack of opportunity to earn cash.

The Government of Japan officially handed over a newly constructed children's home building in Humla District during a ceremony held on Wednesday. The event was attended by Tamura Takahiro, Charge ...

In the northern part of the country, drought has destroyed crops with food in short supply for the past three months. As local authorities get NGO activists to leave so as to limit food consumption, ...

Humla is in the remote northwestern corner of Nepal. And in a remote corner within Humla district is Limi Valley. Culturally, linguistically and even geologically, this is the Tibetan Plateau, and ...

On Thursday, an earthquake measuring 4.6 magnitude on Richter scale hit western Nepal's Humla district. "No loss of life or property has been reported," an official from National Seismological Centre ...

The mountainous district Humla in the Karnali province has seven local levels. Schools in the district are closed for two months Poush and Magh (mid-December to mid-February). The local governments in ...

According to the Indian embassy in Kathmandu, 154 pilgrims are stranded in Simikot — the district headquarters of Humla — and 50 in Hilsa, close to the border with Tibet. More than 200 Indian pilgrims ...

"I need some Nepali phrases like 'How are you feeling?' and 'What's the problem?'," says Dr Kirsten Schwarz from south-west Germany over omelette and milky tea. Many children were seeing a doctor for ...

On September 1, Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba announced the formation of a committee to “study” the border dispute between Nepal and China in Humla. The committee will study the alleged ...