Governance in community forestry in Nepal through forest certification

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dc.contributor.authorAcharya, R. P.
dc.contributor.authorBhattarai, B. P.
dc.contributor.authorDahal, N.
dc.contributor.authorKunwar, R. M.
dc.contributor.authorKarki, G.
dc.contributor.authorBhattarai, H. P.
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-28T06:05:21Z
dc.date.available2015-07-28T06:05:21Z
dc.date.issued2015-03
dc.description.abstractForest certification raised a significant amount of interest around the world and it is now increasingly hailed as an incentive to improve community forest management and poverty reduction since it is associated with local economic, social and environmental impacts. We analyzed the impacts found after certification of Kalobhir and Lahare community forest user groups respectively of Dolakha and Bajhang districts of Nepal and assessed the implications for local forest and livelihood management. The subject forest user groups were sorted out and studied following stakeholders and key informants consultations, field observations and literature review. Forest certification found a vehicle for local value addition, income generation and it helped abate negative environmental consequences. Associate positive changes included sustainable collection of forest products and maintenance of transparency, accountability, and equitable benefit sharing. Local enterprises and entrepreneurship were emerged. The revised forest operational plans were in consistent with forest certification indicators resulting in maintenance of inventory of major traded non-timber forest products with management prescriptions, identification of major biodiversity threats and their management plans, provision of general environmental impacts assessment, and wise-use management objectives. However, forest certification is in the growing phase, and it takes some time to accommodate a large number of CFUGs, to be competent and to access the international market for acquiring and sharing benefits among all.en_AU
dc.identifier.issn1465-5489en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/14470
dc.publisherCommonwealth Forestry Associationen_AU
dc.rights© Commonwealth Forestry Association.en_AU
dc.sourceInternational Forestry Reviewen_AU
dc.subjectForest certificationen_AU
dc.subjectmultiple impactsen_AU
dc.subjectpoverty reductionen_AU
dc.subjectsustainable forest managementen_AU
dc.titleGovernance in community forestry in Nepal through forest certificationen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage9en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationDahal, N., Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.authoremaildahalnabaraj@gmail.comen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidu5053881en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume17en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1505/146554815814725077en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu1005913en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttp://www.cfa-international.org/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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