Journal of forest and livelihood
2003 - Journal of Forest and Livelihood Vol. 2 (2)
It is a great pleasure for us to present this fourth issue of the Journal of Forest and Livelihood,
which is also the 26th mailing of the Rural Development Forestry Network (RDFN). We have
taken the opportunity of this joint issue to showcase some UK-funded research on the impacts of
community forestry in Nepal. By allocating all of this issue to discussion of projects funded by
one specific agency, in this case the UK Department for International Development (DFID), th...
2002 - Journal of Forest and Livelihood Vol. 2 (1)
We are pleased to bring the second issue of the Journal of Forest and Livelihood despite some delay. What we have learnt through the experience with the first and the second issue is that producing a Journal of this quality from a country like Nepal, where there is a poor information infrastructure, is a daunting task. The challenges lie in all aspects of management: getting quality articles, getting the time of quality reviewers and editors, and finally ge...
2001- Journal of Forestry and Livelihoods. Vol. 1 (1)
Most of Nepals forest is public property controlled nationally, though the communities have lived with forests since ancient times. The evolution of the Nepali nation state has created centrally dictated institutions and rules governing resource access and use, more or less up until the last decade. After the democratic movement of 90s, forest policies and regulations have been changed in favour of local users which allowed communities to take parts of...