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Poor rains, poor harvests drive Sudurpaschim Dalits from their villages

Persistent droughts and erratic weather patterns have devastated agricultural yields, forcing large numbers of Dalit families in Nepal’s Sudurpashchim Province to abandon their ancestral villages. This mass migration has not only fueled a humanitarian crisis marked by extreme poverty and malnutrition but also triggered the collapse of vital cultural traditions and social support networks.

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