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Assessing the Value of Community Forests for Improving Rural Livelihood in Punakha District, Bhutan
Author | : Dechen Choden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Community forests |
ISBN | : |
Opportunities and Constraints to Community Forests for Local Income Generation and Livelihood
Author | : Wangchuk Dorji |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Electronic dissertations |
ISBN | : |
To date, community forests do not provide households with significant income. In Shambayung CF, records indicate there is sufficient timber beyond local use which could be available for sale but lack of a good access road has limited sale of excess timber. The Ziptangzur CFMG is just beginning to collect and sell wild mushroom (Auricularia sp) from CF as well as from the government forest, but income remains quite small. Both Dechen Kinga Choeling CF and Lhapang CF have excess timber that could be sold in the future to generate income but it hasn't done so yet. Lastly, while community forest funds are accumulating income from government fees, only a few low interest loans have been offered to individuals. Community forests in the study sites are valuable for protecting local forest resources from outsiders and meeting local wood needs, but agriculture, especially sale of cash crops such as potatoes, remains the key source of livelihood. Rural poverty alleviation efforts need to focus on both forestry and agriculture, and be particularly careful to coordinate activities between them.
Communities, Livelihoods and Natural Resources
Author | : International Development Research Centre (Canada) |
Publisher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1552502309 |
This book synthesizes results from a 7-year programme of applied research on community-based approaches to natural resource management in Asia. By presenting field reports of innovative approaches to poverty reduction and sustainable resource use, it provides practitioners with models of ""good practice"" in participatory, community-based resource management, and it demonstrates how site-based research contributes to broader learning in the field of natural resource management and policy. There are 11 case studies featured, from some of the most marginal areas of rural China, Mongolia, Laos, V.
Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development
Author | : Ephraim Nkonya |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 695 |
Release | : 2015-11-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3319191683 |
This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. The annual global cost of land degradation due to land use and cover change (LUCC) and lower cropland and rangeland productivity is estimated to be about 300 billion USD. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for the largest share (22%) of the total global cost of land degradation. Only about 38% of the cost of land degradation due to LUCC - which accounts for 78% of the US$300 billion loss – is borne by land users and the remaining share (62%) is borne by consumers of ecosystem services off the farm. The results in this volume indicate that reversing land degradation trends makes both economic sense, and has multiple social and environmental benefits. On average, one US dollar investment into restoration of degraded land returns five US dollars. The findings of the country case studies call for increased investments into the rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands, including through such institutional and policy measures as strengthening community participation for sustainable land management, enhancing government effectiveness and rule of law, improving access to markets and rural services, and securing land tenure. The assessment in this volume has been conducted at a time when there is an elevated interest in private land investments and when global efforts to achieve sustainable development objectives have intensified. In this regard, the results of this volume can contribute significantly to the ongoing policy debate and efforts to design strategies for achieving sustainable development goals and related efforts to address land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
Empowering People, Enhancing Livelihood, and Conserving Nature
Author | : Pema Thinley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Community organization |
ISBN | : |
Changes of Livelihood and Its Contemporary Problems in Mountainous Villages of Eastern Bhutan
Author | : Yoshio Akamatsu |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2016-05-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781532970306 |
The book on 'Changes of Livelihood and Its contemporary Problems in Mountainous Villages of Easter Bhutan' has been written based on fieldwork for two years in Bhutan from 2011. Through this book the author shows formal and essential change of agricultural practice and livelihood in the Himalayan mountain slope. The author also tries to disclose real situation of Eastern Bhutan villages reflecting socio-economic changes. The ongoing out-migration and considerable abandoned fields are overshadowing the future of rural communities and necessity of additional expansion of development from a different aspect has been mentioned.
Community Forests for Local Income Generation and Livelihood
Author | : Wangchuk Dorji |
Publisher | : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2012-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783659223709 |
Bhutan has had an active community forestry program since 2000. A key feature of the nationally organized program is the devolution of forest management and use to local residents who participate in a "Community Forestry Management Groups" (CFMG) for managing nearby community forests (CF) according to rules developed by the Department of Forests. These groups are responsible for developing and implementing community forest management plans that entitle them to use locally valuable forest products (fuel wood, construction timber, mushrooms, bamboo etc). Since 2005, CFMGs have been given the right to sell forest products from their CFs that are not needed locally with the goal that community forestry can contribute to rural poverty alleviation in Bhutan, in addition to sustainable forestry.