This article examines the feasibility of integrating five non-timber forest product (NTFP) species into field crop cultivation in eastern Nepal. Cost-benefit analyses including Net Present Value (NPV) and Benefit-Cost Ratio (BCR) show that all the NTFP species are more profitable than field crops...
Pandit, B.H.
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[Factors influencing the integration of non-timber forest products into field crop cultivation: a case study from Eastern Nepal]
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Factors influencing the integration of non-timber forest products into field crop cultivation: a case study from Eastern Nepal
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 d...
McDougall, C.
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Ojha, H.
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Banjade, M.R.
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Pandit, B.H.
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Bhattarai, T.
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Maharjan, M.R.
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Rana, S.
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[Forests of learning: Experiences from research on an Adaptive Collaborative Approach to community forestry in Nepal]
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Forests of learning: Experiences from research on an Adaptive Collaborative Approach to community forestry in Nepal
In this guidebook, we share suggestions for how a team of facilitators and a community forest user group (CFUG) can catalyse and maintain an approach to governance and management that draws on and strengthens the CFUG’s own adaptive and collaborative capacities. This approach fits within the Comm...
McDougall, C.
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Pandit, B.H.
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Banjade, M.R.
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Paudel, K.P.
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Ojha, H.
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Maharjan,M.
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Rana, S.
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Bhattarai, T.
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Dangol, S.
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[Facilitating forests of learning: Enabling an adaptive collaborative approach in community forest user groups: a guidebook]
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Facilitating forests of learning: Enabling an adaptive collaborative approach in community forest user groups: a guidebook
The study documents practices of 28 community-based forest enterprises (CBFEs) in Nepal, representing different enterprise models - FUGs (CFUGs or LFUGs), networks, cooperatives, and companies. FUGs are primarily constrained by their limited scale in terms of membership and land area. The formati...
Pandit, B.H.
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Albano, A.
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Kumar, C.
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[Improving forest benefits for the poor: learning from community-based forest enterprises in Nepal]
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Improving forest benefits for the poor: learning from community-based forest enterprises in Nepal
McDougall, C.
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Ojha, H.
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Pandey, R.K.
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Banjade, M.R.
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Pandit, B.H.
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[Enhancing adaptiveness and collaboration in community forestry in Nepal: reflections from participatory action research]
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Enhancing adaptiveness and collaboration in community forestry in Nepal: reflections from participatory action research
This paper examines the influence of an adaptive collaborative management approach (ACM) on poor people’s control over, and benefits from, a community-based non-timber forest product (NTFP) network enterprise in the Eastern Hills of Nepal. The approach involved shifts in governance and management...
Pandit, B.H.
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McDougall, C.
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Belcher, B.
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Kumar, C.
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Maharjan, M.R.
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[Leveraging poor people’s access to ownership and benefits of community-based forest enterprises: the role of an adaptive collaborative management approach]
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Leveraging poor people’s access to ownership and benefits of community-based forest enterprises: the role of an adaptive collaborative management approach
Developing community-based forest enterprises (CBFEs) is an ideal development intervention in poor forest communities as they have the potential to generate income and employment for the poor while supporting sustainable management of forest resources. This potential is limited by various constra...
Albano, A.
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Pandit, B.H.
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Kumar, C.
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Belcher, B.
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[Developing community-based forest enterprises in Nepal]
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Developing community-based forest enterprises in Nepal