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Breaking New Ground Leasehold Forestry in Nepal (February 2004)
Abstract:
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. #Forest #Land #Lease #Nepal #IFAD #Rehabilitate
Publisher: IFAD Type / Script:
Bulletin or Poster  in  English
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
Thematic Group:
IFAD , (2004)
Thesaurus:
04.05.00 - Forestry
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Feeder: ALISHATHAPALIYA, Editor: SANJIYA SHRESTHA, Auditor:
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Breaking new ground Leasehold forestry in Nepal (February 2004)
Abstract:
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. #forest #land #lease #nepal #IFAD #rehabilitate
Publisher: IFAD Type / Script:
Bulletin or Poster  in  English
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
Thematic Group:
IFAD , (2004)
Thesaurus:
04.05.00 - Forestry
PDF | File Size: 433 KB   Download
Feeder: ALISHATHAPALIYA, Editor: LAMAROHINI7@GMAIL COM, Auditor:
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Breaking new ground Leasehold forestry in Nepal (February 2004)
Abstract:
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.
Publisher: IFAD Type / Script:
Bulletin or Poster  in  English
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
Thematic Group:
IFAD , (2004)
Thesaurus:
04.05.00 - Forestry
PDF | File Size: 433 KB   Download
Feeder: ALISHATHAPALIYA, Editor: , Auditor:
...
Breaking new ground Leasehold forestry in Nepal (February 2004)
Abstract:
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.Two main approaches aiming to cope with forest degradation have been tested in Nepal in the last 25 years. Community forestry, a flagship programme for several international organisations, consists of preventative measures to protect well- stocked forest areas against over-exploitation.
Publisher: IFAD Type / Script:
Bulletin or Poster  in  English
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
Thematic Group:
IFAD , (2004)
Thesaurus:
04.05.00 - Forestry
PDF | File Size: 433 KB   Download
Feeder: ALISHATHAPALIYA, Editor: , Auditor:
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