Dualistic development and economic benefits: Experience from Community Forestry in Nepal

Dualistic development and economic benefits: Experience from Community Forestry in Nepal

Almost one third of the forest areas (1.71 million hectares) throughout Nepal has been handed over to the local communities as community forests for ensuring the communities primarily to fulfill their basic needs of forestry products, besides their active participation on conserving biodiversity, and instigating social development at local level. More than 18,000 Community Forest User Groups (C...

A Forest Community or Community Forestry? Beliefs, meanings and nature in north-western Nepal

Bridging Certification and Community Forestry through NTFPs: A Case Study from Nepal

Issue For a variety of reasons, community forestry is not always well suited to existing forest certification schemes. Using the case of Nepal, this paper considers the extent to which promoting the trade in non‐ timber forest products can complement, or even provide an alternative to, forest certification for timber while promoting sustainable community forestry. The paper develops recent work...

Improving the Effectiveness of Collective Action: Sharing Experiences from Community Forestry in Nepal

The CGIAR Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) is an initiative of the 15 centers that belong to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. The initiative promotes comparative research on the role played by property rights and collective action institutions in shaping the efficiency, sustainability, and equity of natural resource systems. CAPRi...

Maoist Conflict, Community Forestry and Livelihoods: Pro-poor Innovations in Forest Management in Nepal

Violent conflicts are quite often perceived as a destructive and negative phenomenon, and there is little understanding of how they also offer opportunities for a positive change in the society. In particular, little is understood about how violent conflicts and development processes interact and create positive changes in local institutions and practices. This articl...