Forest areas in Nepal decreased at a rate of 1.7 percent every year between the end of the 1970s and the mid 1990s. Land degradation leads to soil erosion spelling disaster for poor rural households who are forced to spend more time collecting fodder and fuel leading in turn to a drop in agricultural labour supply, agricultural production and food security. However, leasehold forestry, an innovative approach introduced by IFAD in the early 1990s, has the potential to reverse this trend. Forty-year leases are provided to groups of households giving them user rights over plots of degraded forest land. They rehabilitate the land by banning grazing and by stall-feeding their livestock, and use and sell forest products such as timber, fuel wood and fodder.
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Publisher:
IFAD
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(2004
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Type / Script:
Bulletin or Poster
in English
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Keywords:
FORESTRY, EVALUATION, LAND DEGRADATION, SOIL EROSION, NATURAL DISASTERS, HOUSEHOLDS, RURAL AREAS, FUELS, FOOD SECURITY, LABOUR, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, FOREST, LAND, FOREST PRODUCTS, GRAZING, SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT, PLANTS, SOIL, CLIMATE, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT, POVERTY, POVERTY MITIGATION, MARKETS, DECISION MAKING, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, FINANCIAL SERVICES, FOREST CONSERVATION, COMMUNICATION, DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING PROGRAMMES, WORKSHOPS
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Thematic Group:
IFAD
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International Fund for Agricultural Development
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Thesaurus:
04.05.00
- Forestry
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