Community forestry in Nepal: a policy innovation for local livelihoods
Author: Hemant Ojha, Lauren Persha, Ashwini Chhatre
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published:
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13:
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Community Forestry in Nepal
Author: Richard Thwaites
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-11
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 131544514X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Community forestry focuses on the link between forest resources and livelihoods and contributes to forest conservation and reforestation. It is widespread in Nepal, with a very high proportion of the rural population involved, and is widely recognized as one of the most successful examples of community forestry in Asia. Through a combination of literature reviews and original research, this volume explores key experiences and outcomes of community forestry in Nepal over the last four decades as a model for improving forest management and supporting local livelihoods. The book takes a critical approach, recognizing successes, especially in forest conservation and restoration, along with mixed outcomes in terms of poverty reduction and benefits to forest users. It recognizes the way that community forestry has continued to evolve to meet new challenges, including the global challenges of climate change, environmental degradation and conservation, as well as national demographic and social changes due to large-scale labour migration and the growing remittance economy. In addition to examining the changes and responses, the book explores ways that community forestry in Nepal might move forward. Lessons from Nepal have relevance to community forestry and community-based approaches to natural resource management around the world that are also experiencing global pressures and opportunities.
Forests of Learning
Author: Cynthia McDougall
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789791412773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Exclusion, inequity and low livelihood benefits: the need for innovation in community forestry in Nepal. Nepal's social and livelihood landscape is shaped by implicitand sometimes explicitsociopolitical struggles at many levels. These can be traced to historical patterns of hierarchy and inequitable power among actors interacting in, and with, a fragile environment. These patterns impact especially severely on poor and dalit people (from so-called 'low caste' groups) and women, and are manifested in social discrimination, relative exclusion from decision making, limited access to resources, and overall vulnerability in livelihoods. Community forestry embodies these struggles and patterns in a vivid way. Forests are a fundamental part of rural livelihood systems in Nepal. As such, forests are also a key area of 'contested space'; within communities and between communities and external actors. Through the considerable efforts of local people and governmental and civil society actors, the Nepal Community Forestry Programme has established more than 14,000 community forest user groups (CFUGs), many of which have improved their forest conditions. And yet, despite these achievements, policy makers and practitioners agree that community forestry in Nepal faces critical 'second generation'; challenges. Fundamental among these is the prevalent inequity in decision making and benefit sharing among members of CFUGs, with the economically and socially marginalised peoplessuch as women ...
Global Exposition of Wildlife Management
Author: Gbolagade Akeem Lameed
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2017-03-22
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9535130250
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book, Global Exposition of Wildlife Management, covers five research topics connected to wildlife management. From conservation and domestication of species from the wild, the socioeconomic importance of wildlife to Tuberculosis within wildlife species as an emerging health threat for both wildlife and humans. Topics presented also discuss bush-meat utilization and its impact on biodiversity conservation, community forestry management and its role in biodiversity conservation, food and feeding ecology, urban forestry, and integrated island management for ecologically sensitive areas. This book also presents wildlife conservation research using a public aquarium as a case study. Each chapter gives special reference to the prevailing problems in wildlife conservation and hopes to provide possible solutions.
REDD, Forest Governance and Rural Livelihoods
Author: Oliver Springate-Baginski
Publisher: CIFOR
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 6028693154
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Experiences from incentive-based forest management are examined for their effects on the livelihoods of local communities. In the second section, country case studies provide a snapshot of REDD developments to date and identify design features for REDD that would support benefits for forest communities.
Millions Fed
Author: David J. Spielman
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 089629661X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Humanity has made enormous progress in the past 50 years toward eliminating hunger and malnutrition. Some five billion people--more than 80 percent of the world's population--have enough food to live healthy, productive lives. Agricultural development has contributed significantly to these gains, while also fostering economic growth and poverty reduction in some of the world's poorest countries.
Forests of Learning: Experiences from Research on an Adaptive Collaborative Approach to Community Forestry in Nepal
Author: Cynthia McDougall
Publisher: CIFOR
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9791412774
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent years, awareness has grown in Nepal and globally regarding two of community forestry’s most critical challenges: equity and livelihoods. Yet even as understanding of these challenges has improved, actors from the local to the national levels in Nepal continue to be confronted with the dilemma of how to address these challenges in such a diverse, complex and dynamic context. This synthesis explores an adaptive collaborative approach to governance and management as one avenue to meet these challenges. This approach integrates inclusive decision making, networking, social learning, and pro active adjustments of practice and policies based on learning. The synthesis’ lessons are drawn from a six-year partnership-based research initiative in Nepal—spearheaded by the Center for International Forestry Research—which spanned the local, district and national levels. Key points of learning discussed in this book include factors, processes and arrangements that support—or limit—adaptive and collaborative capacities, such as active facilitation, ‘nested’ decision making, and learning-based monitoring. The book also explores both the conceptual underpinnings of the approach as well as its effects in research sites, including in terms of benefits for the poor, women and other traditionally marginalised people. This book is intended as a resource for policy makers and civil society practitioners alike, as well as researchers and others interested in pro-equity and livelihood innovations in community forestry. Through its clear conceptual and research lesson focus, this synthesis complements and is a sister publication to the hands-on guidebook entitled Facilitating Forests of Learning.
Participatory Forestry
Community Forest Management and REDD+
Author: Peter Newton
Publisher:
Published: 2014-03-20
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780991040704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The urgent need to limit anthropogenic carbon emissions has led to a global initiative to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+). But, designing national architectures for REDD+ that integrate local actions on forests with national-level outcomes and do so effectively, efficiently, and equitably continues to be challenging. One option to facilitate the design and implementation of REDD+ is to learn from the experience of other programs that have historically been successful in achieving sustainable tropical forest management, such as community forest management (CFM). Lessons about the factors that contribute to CFM success will be useful in designing REDD+ programs. REDD+ may also benefit from harnessing the capital developed by CFM. Of course, REDD+ and CFM represent both opportunities and challenges for each other. Identifying how CFM can contribute to REDD+ goals, and the potential benefits and risks in using CFM to achieve REDD+ implementation requires careful analysis of available evidence because the two sets of interventions do not have a complete overlap in terms of their objectives and mechanisms. In this study report, we use a thorough literature review and analysis of primary data collected by the International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) research network from 57 CFM sites to achieve three objectives. First, we establish a framework for examining interactions and relationships between CFM and REDD+. Second, we empirically investigate these relationships in three countries: Nepal, Tanzania, and Bolivia. All three countries have a strong history of CFM and each is engaged in the development of REDD+ or related institutional architectures. Finally, based on the analysis of our data, we provide key recommendations for communities, project developers, policy makers, and researchers.
Forty years of community-based forestry
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9251090955
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the 1970s and 1980s, community-based forestry has grown in popularity, based on the concept that local communities, when granted sufficient property rights over local forest commons, can organize autonomously and develop local institutions to regulate the use of natural resources and manage them sustainably. Over time, various forms of community-based forestry have evolved in different countries, but all have at their heart the notion of some level of participation by smallholders and community groups in planning and implementation. This publication is FAO’s first comprehensive look at the impact of community-based forestry since previous reviews in 1991 and 2001. It considers both collaborative regimes (forestry practised on land with formal communal tenure requiring collective action) and smallholder forestry (on land that is generally privately owned). The publication examines the extent of community-based forestry globally and regionally and assesses its effectiveness in delivering on key biophysical and socioeconomic outcomes, i.e. moving towards sustainable forest management and improving local livelihoods. The report is targeted at policy-makers, practitioners, researchers, communities and civil society.
