• Pro-poor Institutions: Creating Exclusive Rights to the Poor Groups in Community Forest Management
  Sushma Bhattarai, Prakash Kumar Jha and Niraj Chapagain
• Tackling the Terai Forest Governance Impasse: Can District-level Multi-stakeholder Processes Help?
  Bishwas Rana, Keshav Prasad Khanal, Rajan Kotru and Balkrishna Jamarkattel
• Democratising Terai Forestry Governance: Emerging Innovations in the Western Terai Region of Nepal
  Bal Krishna Jamarkattel, Sindhu Prasad Dhungana, Srijana Baral, Bishwas Rana and Hari Dhungana
• Non-timber Forest Products Enterprise Development: Regulatory Challenges in the Koshi Hills of Nepal
  Subash C Kunwar, Abdul S Ansari and Harisharan Luintel
• Facilitating the Transition from Passive to Active Community Forest Management: Lessons from Rapti Zone, Nepal
  NP Yadav, KP Yadav, Kamlesh K Yadav and Nirmal Thapa
• Improving Community-level Governance: Adaptive Learning and Action in Community Forest User Groups in Nepal
  RB Shrestha, Sohan L Shrestha, Sudil G Acharya and Shrikanta Adhikari
• Community Forestry and Local Development: Experiences from the Koshi Hills of Nepal
  Neeraj Chapagain and Mani Ram Banjade
• Maoist Conflict, Community Forestry and Livelihoods: Pro-poor Innovations in Forest Management in Nepal
  Nirmal K B.K., Ravi K Shrestha, Sudil G Acharya and Abdul S Ansari

• Climate Change, Forestry and Carbon Financing in Nepal: Editorial Introduction
  Hemant R Ojha
• Global Warming in Nepal: Challenges and Policy Imperatives
  Pashupati Chaudhary and Kamal P. Aryal
• Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation: Some Issues and Considerations
  Bhim Adhikari
• Carbon Financing and Community Forestry: A Review of the Questions, Challenges and the Case of Nepal
  Samantha Staddon
• Reducing Emissions from Nepal's Community Managed Forests: Discussion for CoP 14 in Poznan
  Bhaskar Singh Karky and Kamal Banskota
• From Green to REDD, from Aid to Trade: Translating the Forest Carbon Concept into Practice
  Bharat Pokharel and Jagadish Baral
• Cultivating REDD in Nepal's Community Forestry: A Discourse for Capitalizing on Potential?
  Ngamindra Dahal and Kamal Banskota
• Nepal's National REDD Framework: How to Start?
  Rajan Kotru
• Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in Nepal: Exploring the Possibilities
  Narayan Dhital
• Carbon Status in Forests of Nepal: An Overview
  Bishwa Nath Oli and Kumud Shrestha
• Carbon Liability, Market Price Risk and Social Impact of Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) Programme
  Bhubaneswor Dhakal
• Carbon Ownership in Community Managed Forests
  Rupa Basnet
• Warming up the Climate Change Debate: A Challenge to Policy based on Adaptation
  Andrea J. Nightingale
• Integrated Approach to Climate Change Adaptation
  Gehendra Bahadur Gurung and Dinanath Bhandari
• Changing Climate in a Mountain Sub-watershed in Nepal
  Babu Ram Lamichhane and Keshav Datt Awasthi
• Exploring Local Knowledge of Climate Change: Some Reflections
  Binod K. Chapagain, Ramu Subedi and Naya Sharma Paudel
• Agro-biodiversity Management: An Opportunity for Mainstreaming Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change
  Bimal R. Regmi, Lalita Thapa, Rojee Suwal, Sudha Khadka, G.B. Sharma and B.B. Tamang

• Understanding Tenure Security in Community Forestry
  Harisharan Luintel and Ram B.Chhetri
• Forest Tenure Regimes and Their Impact on Livelihoods in Nepal
  Krishna P. Acharya, Jagannath Adhikari and Dilraj Khanal
• Trends and Impact of Forest Tenure Reforms in Asia: Cases from India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Nepal and the Philippines
  Ganga Ram Dahal and Krishna Prasad Adhikari
• Handover of Community Forestry: A Political Decision or a Technical Process?
  Naya Sharma Paudel, Mani Ram Banjade and Ganga Ram Dahal
• Economic Potential of Non-timber Forest Products in Nepal: Myth or Reality?
  Mani Ram Banjade and Naya Sharma Paudel
• Mobile Pastoralism in Crisis: Challenges, Conflicts and Status of Pasture Tenure in Nepal Mountains
  Mani Ram Banjade and Naya Sharma Paudel
• Exploring Economic and Market Dimensions of Forestry Sector in Nepal
  Sindhu Prasad Dhungana and Ram Chandra Bhattarai
• Securing Rights to Livelihoods through Public Land Management: Opportunities and Challenges
  Meena Kunwar, Peter Neil, Bimala Rai Paudyal and Ramu Subedi

• Community-based Forest Management Programmes in Nepal: An Overview of Issues and Lessons
  Hemant R Ojha, Netra P Timsina, Chetan Kumar, Brian Belchar and Mani Ram Banjade
• Community Forestry: Conserving Forests, Sustaining Livelihoods and Strengthening Democracy
  Bharat K Pokharel, Peter Branney, Mike Nurse and Yam B Malla
• Poor-Focused Common Forest Management: Lessons from Leasehold Forestry in Nepal
  Basundhara Bhattarai, Sindhu Prasand Dhungana and Govinda Prasad Kafley
• Collaborative Forest Management in Nepal's Terai: Policy, Practice and Contestation
  James F.R. Bampton, Arthur Ebregt and Mani Ram Banjade
• Buffer Zones: New Frontiers for Participatory Conservation?
  Naya S. Paudel, Prabhu Budhathoki and Uday R. Sharma
• Learning from Community Participation in Conservation Area Management
  Siddhartha Bajra Bajracharya, Gehendra Bahadur Gurung and Khadga Basnet
• Watershed Management and Livelihoods: Lessons from Nepal
  Bishnu Hari Pandit, Mohan Prasad Wagley, Ramji Prasad Neupane and Bharat Raj Adhikary

• Editorial
  Naya Sharma Paudel and Harisharan Luintel
• How are Forest Policy Decisions Made in Nepal?
  Hemant R Ojha, Netra P Timsina and Dilraj Khanal
• Claiming a Bird in Hand: Economic Potential of Plantation in Nepal under Clean Development Mechanism
  Sindhu Prasad Dhungana, Bishwa Nath Oli and Ram Asheswor Mandal
• How Can Timber Rents Better Contribute to Poverty Reduction through Community Forestry in the Terai Region of Nepal?
  James Bampton and Bruno Cammaert
• Conceptualising Meso-Level Governance in the Management of Commons: Lessons from Nepal’s Community Forestry
  Mani Ram Banjade, Naya Sharma Paudel, Hemant R Ojha, Cynthiya McDougall and Ravi Prabhu
• Advocacy Campaign to Improve Governance in Community Forestry: A Case from Western Nepal
  Popular Gentle, Krishna Prasad Acharya and Ganga Ram Dahal
• Challenges to Participation: Lessons from Participatory Action Research with Community Forest User Groups in Nepal
  Krishna Paudel, Kate Green, Hemant R Ojha and Richard Barnes

• Editorial
  Basundhara Bhattarai and Devendra P. Chapagain
• Exploring Priority Problems of the Forest Dependent Poor in Nepal
  Exploring Priority Problems of the Forest Dependent Poor in Nepal
• Caught in the Crossfire: Forest-Dependent Poor People in Nepal
  Krishna Prasad Paudel and Balkrishna Kattel
• Transforming Agency and Structure for Facilitating Pro-Poor Governance in Community Forestry
  Mani Ram Banjade, Netra P Timsina, Hari R Neupane, Kamal Bhandari, Tara Bhattarai and Sushila Kumari Rana
• Experiences and Challenges of Promoting Pro-poor and Social Inclusion Initiatives in User Group Forestry
  Bimala Rai Paudyal, Peter Neil and Gaia Allison
• The Livelihood Improvement Process: An Inclusive and Pro-Poor Approach to Community Forestry – Experiences from Kabhrepalanchok and Sindhupalchok Districts of Nepal
  Murari Joshi, Lokendra Dhakal, Gopi Paudel. Raghu Shrestha, Arun Paudel, Padam B Chand and Netra P Timsina
• Reconstructing the Concept of Forest-Based Enterprise Development in Nepal: Towards a Pro-Poor Approach
  Bharat Pokharel, Dinesh Paudel, Peter Branney, Dil B Khatri and Mike Nurse
• From Protection to Poverty Reduction: A Review of Forestry Policies and Practices in Nepal
  Ram B. Chhetri
• Reducing Poverty through Community Based Forest Management in Asia
  Sango Mohanty, Jane Gronow, Mike Nurse and Yam Malla

• Editorial
  Hemant R Ojha, Mani Ram Banjade, Netra P Timsina, Krishna P Paudel and Bharat Pokharel
• A Framework for the Analysis of Community Forestry Performance in the Terai
  Birkha Chhetry, Paul Francis, Madhu Gurung, Vegard Iversen, Ghanendra Kafle, Adam Pain and Janet Seeley
• Is Leasehold Forestry Really a Pro-poor Innovation? Evidences from Kavre District, Nepal
  Basundhara Bhattarai, Hemant R Ojha and Yadav Humagain
• Community Based Forest Management Systems in Developing Countries and Eligibility for Clean Development Mechanism
  Tek Narayan Maraseni, Geoff Cockfield and Armando Apan
• Impacts of Community Forestry Development on Livestock-Based Livelihood in Nepal
  Bhubaneswor Dhakal
• How can Collection of Wild Edible Fungi Contribute to Livelihoods in Rural Areas of Nepal?
  Morten Christensen and Helle O. Larsen
• 25 Years of Community Forestry in Nepal: A Review of Fourth National Workshop Proceedings
  Hemant R Ojha and Keshav Kanel
• A Commentary on Bhattarai et al. (2002). "The Vacillating Evolution of Forestry Policy in Nepal: Historically Manipulated, Internally Mismanaged.
  Hemant R Ojha and Naya Sharma Paudel

• Editorial
  Mani Ram Banjade and Ram B. Chhetri
• Action and Learning: An Approach for Facilitating a Change in Knowledge and Power Relationship in Community Forestry
  Netra P. Timsina, Harisharan Luintel, Kamal Bhandari and Arjun Thapaliya
• Dynamics of Resource Governance, Resource Scarcity and Conflict in Nepal
  Bishnu R. Upreti
• Forests and People's Livelihood: Benefiting the Poor from Community Forestry
  Bharat Pokharel and Mike Nurse
• Transaction Costs and Common Property Forest Management: Empirical Evidence from Nepal
  Bhim Adhikari
• Extraction of NTFPs from the Community Forest: Analysis of Benefit Distribution Pattern in Household Level
  Arun K.C.
• Does Community Forests Management Supports Biodiversity Conservation? Evidences from Two Community Forests from the Mid Hills of Nepal
  Krishna P. Acharya
• Community Forestry in Nepal: Achievements and Challenges
  Keshav Kanel and Bala Ram Kandel
• Sustainability of Local Hand-made Paper (Nepali Kagat) Enterprises: A Case Study of Dolakha District
  Arun Sharma Poudyal

• Editorial
  Hemant R Ojha and Kate Schreckenberg
• Community Forest Management in the Middle Hills of Nepal: The Changing Context
  Oliver Springate-Baginski, Om Prakash Dev, Nagendra Prasad Yadav and John Soussan
• Institutional Development of Forest User Groups in Nepal: Processes and indicators
  Oliver Springate-Baginski, Nagendra Yadav, Om Prakash Dev and John Soussan
• Forest Management and Utilisation Under Community Forestry
  Nagendra Prasad Yadav, Om Prakash Dev, Oliver Springate-Baginski and John Soussan
• Hamlet-Based Micro-Level Action Planning: A Tool for Improving FUGs' Planning, Decision-Making and Implementation
  Om Prakash Dev, Oliver Springate-Baginski, Nagendra Prasad Yadav and John Soussan
• Impacts of Community Forestry on Livelihoods in the Middle Hills of Nepal
  Om Prakash Dev, Nagendra Prasad Yadav, Oliver Springate-Baginski and John Soussan
• Why aren’t Poor People Benefiting More from Community Forestry?
  Yam B. Malla, Hari P. Neupane and Peter J. Branney
• Economics, Poverty and Transparency: Measuring Equity in Forest user Groups
  Michael Richards, Maksha Maharjan and Keshav Kanel

• Editorial
  Hemant R Ojha, Krishna P. Paudel and Bharat Pokharel
• Retrospective and Prospective View of Community Forestry in Nepal
  Don Gilmour
• State versus Community: A Confusing Policy Discourse in Nepal’s Forest Management
  Netra P. Timsina and Naya Sharma Paudel
• Devolution in the Context of Poor Governance: Some Learning from Community Forestry in Nepal
  Ganga Ram Dahal
• District Forest Coordination Committee: An Emerging Multistakeholder Platform for Collaborative Forest Management in Nepal's Terai
  James F.R. Bampton
• Exclusion Isn’t Easy: Lessons from a Leasehold Forest
  Christopher A. Thoms, Mukunda B. Karmacharya and Birendra K. Karna
• Contested Impact of Community Forestry on Equity: Some Evidences from Nepal
  Hari Neupane
• Inventory Related Problems and Opportunities in Community Forestry: Findings of a Survey
  Narayan Dhital, Krishna P. Paudel and Hemant R Ojha
• Viewing FECOFUN from the Perspective of Popular Participation and Representation
  Netra P. Timsina
• Nepal’s Conservation in Crisis: Empowering People to Secure Natural Resources
  Prabhu Budhathoki

• Editorial
  Hemant R Ojha, Bharat Pokharel and Krishna P. Paudel
• Household Characteristics and Common Property Forest use: Complementarities and Contradictions
  Bhim Adhikari
• Impact of Community Forestry on Women's Workload and the use of Chemical Fertilizer
  Rabindra Ray
• Participating or Just Sitting in? The Dynamics of Gender and Caste in Community Forestry
  Andrea J. Nightingale
• Private Property Arrangement within Community Forest: A Case of Raktamala Forest User Group
  Him L Shrestha and Hima Uprety
• Empowerment or Marginalization: A Debate in Community Forestry in Nepal
  Netra P. Timsina
• Depleting Forests, Silent Spectators: Who should Manage Nepal's Terai Forests?
  Jagadish C. Baral
• Strategic Forest Management Planning in Terai
  James Bampton
• Conflicts between Policy and Local People in Valuing Non-timber Forest Products: Perspectives from Nepal
  Krishna .H. Gautam and Nora N. Devoe
• Issues and Options of Sustainable Management of Himalayan Medicinal Herbs
  Harisharan Luintel
• Non-timber Forest Products: An Alternative Source of Rural Income
  Shambhu Dangal
• Bamboo Research and Development in Nepal
  Shyam K. Paudel and A.N. Dash
• Integrating People and Nature: A Perspective for Environmental Conservation and Livelihoods in the Context of Nepal
  Naya Sharma Paudel
• Stakeholder Collaboration, Adaptive Management and Social Learning: A Perspective for Community Forestry in Nepal
  Hemant R Ojha, Bharat Pokharel and Krishna P Paudel
• Review of Community Forestry Monitoring Systems in Nepal
  Krishna P Paudel and Hemant R Ojha
• Scaling up of Sustainable Soil Management Practices: Some Lessons from the Hills of Nepal
  Hari Neupane, Hemant R Ojha and Chris Garforth
• Department of Forest's new Community Forestry Guideline
  Hemant R Ojha
• Participatory Action and Learning in Forest Management: A field Worker's Guidebook for Supporting Community Forest Management
  Krishna P Paudel
• Innovative Forestry: A Synthesis of Small-scale Forest Management Practice from Nepal
  Hemant R Ojha

• Editorial
  Hemant R Ojha, Krishna P Paudel, Yam B Malla and Richard Barnes
• Understanding Forest Dynamics for Active Management: Results from Participatory Trial Plots in the Hills of Nepal
  Robin aus der Beek, Dinesh Paudel, Jaya Bahadur Bhujel, Sita Ram Shivakoti and Sarita Lama
• Community Forestry and Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Churia Region of Nepal
  Dambar Tembe
• Minimizing the Cost of Overstocking: Towards a Thinning Regime for Community - Managed Pine Plantations in the Central Hills of Nepal
  Steve Hunt, Shambhu Dangal and Sarita Shrestha
• Protection of Community Forests: Options and Innovations in the Hills of Nepal
  Basundhara Bhattarai
• Community Forestry and People’s Livelihoods
  Bharat Pokharel
• Commercial Use of Non-Timber Forest Products: Can the Poor Really Get Benefits?
  Hemant R Ojha
• Socio-economic Heterogeneity and Income Distribution: Evidence from Common Property Resource Management
  Bhim Adhikari
• Local Level Monitoring Systems in Community Forestry: Challenges, Opportunities and Directions for Future
  Krishna P Paudel, Hemant R Ojha and Richard Barnes
• Contributions of Community Forestry in Rural Social Transformation: Some Observations From Nepal
  Bishnu Upreti
• Learning to Learn: Research into Adaptive and Collaborative Management of Community Forests
  Cynthia McDougall
• Learning to Learn: Research into Adaptive and Collaborative Management of Community Forests
  Krishna P Paudel

This publication primarily focuses on the issue of democratization of forestry sector in Nepal. The rights of the local community become the prime concern of every author of the articles included in the journal. The specific governance and management issue of Terai forest is another major issue covered in the journal. Similarly, the innovative practices of Terai CFUGs to address the current issues of equity and inclusion of distant users are also discussed in brief in some articles. The need and way of good governance at the CFUG level are also brought into discussion in this issue of Journal. more...

This issue has focused on the totality of change contributed by community forestry in social, economic and political transformation of Nepal. Institutional and individual transformation stories from Terai to the mountain region are compiled in this issue. Change in attitude and thinking patterns is the most considerable factor in the endeavour of transformation. So, rather than presenting constrains and weaknesses of the community forestry, this issue has aimed to contribute by highlighting the strengths and successful stories. more...

This issue has focused on the totality of change contributed by community forestry in social, economic and political transformation of Nepal. Institutional and individual transformation stories from Terai to the mountain region are compiled in this issue. Change in attitude and thinking patterns is the most considerable factor in the endeavour of transformation. So, rather than presenting constrains and weaknesses of the community forestry, this issue has aimed to contribute by highlighting the strengths and successful stories. more...

This issue largely focused on the management of NTFPs including medicinal plants. It has highlighted the policies of HMG/N related to NTFPs, the increase of the demand for herbal products and the subsequent expansion of the market, the relation between the World Trade Organization and NTFPs and other issues surrounding the subject. It has highlighted the concerns of the poor within the overall process of NTFP production. more...

This issue highlights the fourth national workshop on CF and other contemporary issues like sustainable forest management and certification, issues of tax in NTFPs, the role of forest users group in disaster management. As well as it also presents the future strategies in the field of community forestry. more...

This issue highlights different concepts on bio-diversity fortification, citizens' rights and gender issues on bio-diversity protection and issues and challenges on bio-diversity management. more...

This issue highlights the pro-poor management and utilization of forest resources. The articles present brief analysis on poverty issues particularly forest dependent poor, community based forest enterprise development and the poor benefiting from community forestry. more...

This issue has been published as a special issue on collaborative forest management, which has become a hot debate in case of Terai forest management. Besides this, the journal has presented other articles related to the issue of tax in community forestry. more...

This journal covers the issues of community forestry, leasehold forestry, national park and NTFPs. It focuses on the issues of management of forest resources, the support and services required for forest users, the importance of information in the management of community forestry and the issues of people's participation and institutional learning. These issues are considered to be important as the Second Generation Issues in the ongoing development discourse of community forestry. more...

This is the first issue of Hamro Ban Sampada published by ForestAction. This issue come up with the articles related to inventory issues, good governance and monitoring, gender issues in the community forestry, and issues related to NTFPs. more...