Under the community forestry scheme pioneered by Nepal in the 1970s, communities manage their forests for their own use and benefits based on an operational plan approved by the divisional forest ...

The move by the Federation of Community Forest Users Nepal (FECOFUN), which has been protesting the proposed changes for more than three months, follows talks with the Ministry of Forests and ...

Kavre and Sindhupalchok were where Nepal's community forestry concept was first piloted in the 1980s, with support from an Australian aid program. “No one attends the meetings for the community forest ...

By Karan Deep Singh and Bhadra Sharma KANKALI COMMUNITY FOREST, Nepal — The old man moved gingerly, hill after hill, cutting dry shrubs until he was surrounded by trees that had grown from ...

Gandaki Province Minister of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment Bikas ... Inaugurating the first council of the Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal in Pokhara today, he said ...

in 3 community forest user groups (CFUGs) in the Dolakha district in Nepal. Management of NTFPs through CFUGs is an important poverty-reduction strategy in rural Nepal. National policy documents ...

The conflict between two major stakeholders in the forest sector, the President Chure Tarai-Madhes Conservation Development board and Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal has come to a ...

In Nepal, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities are at the helm of forests conservation, leveraging traditional knowledge and community-based management. They share a symbiotic relationship with ...

25, No. 3, Aug., 2005 Private, Collective, and Centralized Ins... The main forest management strategy of Nepal, community forestry, is based on people's participation and was formally introduced in ...

There are now 16,000-20,000 community-managed forests in Nepal, covering 25 per cent or 1.2 million hectares of the country's forest land, Mr. Rana says. Communities also earn revenue by selling ...