Environmental degradation and climate change are the two major problems confronting agriculture today. Climate change, caused by the increased concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, has emerged as one of the most prominent global environmental problems. Nepal, an agrarian country, is impacted by extreme weather events, erratic rainfall patterns, rising temperatures, and changing climate dynamics. Furthermore, environmental impacts on agriculture have raised serious concerns about sustainable agricultural production system caused by rampant use of agrochemicals, which is counterproductive to soil, water, and air quality. These are likely to threaten the food security and livelihoods of people in Nepal. To sustain the food and nutritional security of the country, an urgent attempt is necessary to make Nepalese agriculture more resilient to environmental degradation and climate change that can fulfill the current and future food demand.

To address these challenges, an Agricultural Environment Unit was established at Khumaltar under Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) in 2000 and later in 2013 it was upgraded to a division. Division emerged as a National Agricultural Environment Research Centre (NAERC) in 2018.  The center is mandated for technologies generation and testing on-farm and promote them to enhance the resilience of Nepalese agriculture to confront environmental degradation and climate change. This can be achieved with the collaboration with public, private, civil society, local governments, and other stakeholders to improve food security and the livelihood of farmers.