Local approaches to ending landlessness

Many commissions were formed in the past to resolve the issue, but none could offer a reasonable solution.

Landlessness is deeply entrenched in the centuries-old feudal land administration in Nepal. Feudalistic segregation led to sociocultural discrimination and economic disparities, resulting in skewed land ownership patterns and excluding women, ethnic minorities and Dalits. The appalling disparity in land ownership patterns prompted reforms in the early 1950s. However, a lack of political will and oversight to fulfil the commitment to land reform left most landless people without their rights.