Search Results - subject:"community forestry"

Livelihood strategies and forest dependence: New insights from Bolivian forest communities

Zenteno, Mario; Zuidema, Pieter A.; de Jong, Wil; Boot, … - In: Forest Policy and Economics 26 (2013) C, pp. 12-21

Total income and income from forest resources among rural dwellers in tropical forest regions are influenced not only by market access, prices, but also organizational, institutional, and social factors. These factors influence the diversity of resources to which the poor have access and result...

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Potential of Forest Resources to Alleviate Poverty and Unemployment in Rural Nepal

Dhakal, Bhubaneswor; Bigsby, Hugh R.; Cullen, Ross - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006

The study examines the importance of community forest resources for income and employment in rural areas of Nepal by studying the effect of current forestry policy on forestland use. Using data from 259 households in six community forest user groups in three hilly districts (Dolakha, Kavre and...

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Potential of Forest Resources to Alleviate Poverty and Unemployment in Rural Nepal

Dhakal, Bhubaneswor; Bigsby, Hugh R.; Cullen, Ross - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006

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Poverty Alleviation or Aggravation? The Impacts of Community Forestry Policies in Nepal

Dhakal, Bhubaneswor; Bigsby, Hugh R.; Cullen, Ross - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

This research studies the effects on income and employment when externally imposed policies constrain use of common forest resources. Using a mixed-integer linear programming model, the study examines the impacts of conservation-oriented community forest policies in Nepal on three household...

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Improving the effectiveness of collective action: sharing experiences from community forestry in Nepal

Acharya, Krishna P.; Gentle, Popular - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"The forest management strategy of Nepal is based on people's participation, which is known as community forestry. This … means to improve their livelihoods. Under the community forestry structure, local people make decisions regarding forest …

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Decentralization and environmental conservation: gender effects from participation in joint forest management

Agrawal, Arun; Yadama, Gautam; Andrade, Raul; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"This paper analyzes how women's participation affects institutional outcomes related to the decentralized governance of community forests in Madhya Pradesh, India. The analysis is based on data from a representative sample of 641 cases of joint forest management, India's flagship program to...

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Socioeconomic Impacts of Public Forest Policies on Heterogeneous Agricultural Households

Dhakal, Bhubaneswor; Bigsby, Hugh; Cullen, Ross - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 53 (2012) 1, pp. 73-95

Nepal has a long history of returning public forests to local people as part of its community forestry programme. In … principle the community forestry programme is designed to address both environmental quality and poverty alleviation. However …

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Capability development of local communities for project sustainability in afforestation/reforestation clean development mechanism

Yamanoshita, Makino; Amano, Masahiro - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 17 (2012) 4, pp. 425-440

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A survey-based evaluation of community-based co-management of forest resources: a case study of Baishuijiang National Natural Reserve in China

Ting, Zhu; Shivakoti, Ganesh; Haiyun, Chen; Maddox, David - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 14 (2012) 2, pp. 197-220

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Does one size fit all? Heterogeneity in the valuation of community forestry programs

Gelo, Dambala; Koch, Steven F. - In: Ecological Economics 74 (2012) C, pp. 85-94

community plantation attributes that impact the welfare of potential community forestry program participants. We employed a … community forestry programs, allowing for different assumptions regarding heterogeneity. In line with economic theory, increased … participation costs reduced the demand for community forestry, while increases in expected productivity raised the demand. With …

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