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Community-based leasehold forestry in Nepal: a genuine tenure reform in progress?

Poudyal, Mahesh and Adhikari, Bhim and Lovett, Jon (2014) Community-based leasehold forestry in Nepal: a genuine tenure reform in progress? In: Bluffstone, Randall and Robinson, Elizabeth J.Z., eds. Forest Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa: Local Control for Improved Livelihoods, Forest Management and Carbon Sequestration. Taylor and Francis, London, UK, pp. 196-211. E-ISBN 978-1-138-81964-1. (doi:10.4324/9781315744261-21) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:90695)

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Abstract

In Nepal, community management is primarily applied as community forestry (CF) and leasehold forestry (LF), although a third approach, called Community Forest Management (CFM), has also been tried in the southern plains area called the Terai. The Private Forest Nationalization Act of 1957 is seen as a turning point in the development of legislation in the Nepalese forestry sector. This act abolished the private ownership of forests, which were largely controlled by elites. A consequence, though, was that this change resulted in large-scale deforestation, as forests beyond the reach of government agencies were effectively turned into open access resources (NPC, 1991; Gautam et al., 2004; Nagendra and Gokhale, 2008). Even after a series of legislative reforms during the 1960s, forest areas were still declining and, by the mid-1970s, the Forestry Department realized the importance of community participation in forest management (Talbott and Khadka, 1994). This recognition was an important step toward developing partici - patory approaches to forest management, which were formally included in govern - ment policy after the National Forestry Plan of 1976 and subsequent legislation in 1978. The Master Plan for the Forestry Sector (1988) firmly established Com - munity Forestry (CF) as the main forest management policy in Nepal (Acharya, 2002).

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.4324/9781315744261-21
Additional information: Unmapped bibliographic data: M3 - Chapter [Field not mapped to EPrints] U2 - 10.4324/9781315744261 [Field not mapped to EPrints] BT - Forest Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa [Field not mapped to EPrints] AN - SCOPUS:84960309186 [Field not mapped to EPrints]
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation
Depositing User: Mahesh Poudyal
Date Deposited: 07 Oct 2021 12:01 UTC
Last Modified: 17 Aug 2022 11:02 UTC
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