My current areas of research focus on the human dimensions of land-use and land-cover change (LULCC), mountain agriculture, smallholders livelihoods, and vulnerability/resilience. In recent years, I have studied how the shared cultural knowledge and rules shape agricultural land-use strategies and agro-biodiversity, and what are their relationships with the "exogenous forces," such as, market economy, institutions, deforestation, conflicts, and a broader scale land-cover change.

I recently completed a PhD degree from UGA. In my dissertation research entitled “Smallholders, Mountain Agriculture and Land-cover Change in Lamjung, Nepal,” I analyzed the coupled human-environmental relationships in a mountain landscape through an interdisciplinary, multi-scalar analysis of smallholder agriculture and LULCC. The integration of ethnographic and survey data with remote sensing and GIS was the key component of the research.