Constraints/Disadvantages

Inaccessibility- Isolation, distance, and poor communication facilities result in high costs or even non-availability of access to goods and services and to markets as well as to other opportunities for diversifying mountain economies.

Fragility - The natural environment of the HKH is prone to rapid degradation in the face of intensive use and improper planning and development of roads and other physical infrastructure.

Marginality - In physical terms, the soils and lands are marginal in their productive capacity. In human and institutional terms, the people of the mountains are left on the fringes of decision-making from mainstream, national development policies and programmes. There is a neglect of their conditions, needs, and aspirations; an increasing inequality and limited participation in decision- making; and the unsuitability of imposing external solutions and programmes.


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