scholarly journals What is REDD+ Additionality in Community Managed Forest for Nepal?

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhaskar Singh Karky ◽  
Rachita Vaidya ◽  
Seema Karki ◽  
Bikul Tulachan
Keyword(s):  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Net Present Value ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Community Forest Management ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Managed Forest ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Current Economic Situation ◽  
Imminent Threat

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is a policy currently under consideration by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This study carries out a Nepal-specific research to understand REDD+ policy’s potential role in carbon sequestration, by identifying the economic and preferential rationales that drive deforestation and degradation in community managed forests. The study explores four different land use options, making use of both community based survey and field data used to generate net present value (NPV). Both techniques give consistent results that, in the current economic situation, farmers prefer using land for livelihood purposes rather than solely for community forest management. This has a very strong implication for policymakers. First, the results imply that conversion and degradation are inevitable, thus placing community forest in imminent threat and making this risk reduction additionality in REDD+ terms. Furthermore, it shows that, to combat the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, policies such as REDD+ need to provide enough financial incentives that will incur the opportunity costs and direct farmers towards the efficient use of community managed forest. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jfl.v11i2.8620   Journal of Forestry and Livelihood Vol.11(2) 2013 37-45

scholarly journals Participatory assessment of biodiversity conservation in community forestry in Nepal

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.P. Acharya ◽  
K.R. Goutam ◽  
B.K. Acharya ◽  
G. Gautam
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Community Forestry ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Community Forest Management ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Participatory Assessment ◽  
Community Forest User Groups

The Community Forestry has been the most effective means of managing common forest resources in Nepal. Besides rehabilitating degraded hills, improving environment and contributing to the rural livelihoods, community forestry is claimed to be a major means of biodiversity conservation. It is also argued that the prevalent approach of community forest management threats to the conservation of biodiversity. This paper is based on the findings from two community forest user groups from Central Nepal and argues that the users’ innovative practices of active forest management favor biodiversity conservation. The study has documented users’ innovations to conserve biodiversity in community managed forests. Key words: Nepal, community forestry, biodiversity conservation and livelihoods Banko Janakari Vol.16(1) 2006 pp46-56

scholarly journals Additional Benefits of Community Managed Forest: A Case Study of Champadevi Community Forest

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 127-132
Author(s):  
Bhanu B Panthi
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Managed Forest ◽  
Community Based

This research attempts to identify the existing condition of the community managed forest based on the assumption that it will serve as a proxy for the condition of other forests in the mid hills region of Nepal. The research area has an atypical variation in altitude and diverse pattern of vegetation. This study mainly focuses on estimating carbon content in the forest and identifying the species that has more carbon storage capacity. The research signifies the role of forests in mitigation of ‘Global warming’ and ‘Climate change’ by storing carbon in tree biomass. These types of community based forest management programs are significant for their additional carbon sequestration through the avoidance of deforestation and degradation. The carbon sequestration have a significant contribution to environmental benefits, any shrinkage of forests have an enormous impact on CO2 emission with long term consequences. Thus, the development and expansion of community managed forests provide many benefits to the adjacent community and globally at large.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/njst.v12i0.6490 Nepal Journal of Science and Technology 12 (2011) 127-32 

scholarly journals Community Forest Management in Nigeria: A Case of Local Empowerment and Environmental Management Project (Leemp) In Adamawa State

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-54
Author(s):  
Aminu Liman ◽  
Ibrahim Ngah
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Natural Resources Management ◽  
Community Forest Management ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Management Project

Deforestation continuous to be a wide spread problem in rural areas of developing countries. Conventional “top down” approach has proved fundamentally limited in their ability to promote the culture of forest conservation in the world over. Inco-prorating the community based forest and community based natural resources management in rural development strategies seems to be the best approach to conserve forest area. This paper provides a case of community forest management by rural communities in rural areas of Nigeria. Based on the experience of the Local Empowerment and Environmental Management Project (LEEMP) in Adamawa State of Nigeria, this paper discussed the achievement and challenges in implementing community based forest management in the rural areas. Information used in this paper is based a preliminary study in evolving interviews with officials of the implementation agencies of LEEMP and a few participants of the projects in Adamawa state. Under LEEMP the priorities include the empowerment of local people to manage the community based forest and community based natural resources conservation in their areas. The project aim for the effective management of renewable forest resources, (vegetation), minimizing depletion of non-renewable forest resources (wild life), minimise forest pollution and its attendants negative impacts.(bush burning), as well as to decentralize the responsibity for managing forest resources. This study found that LEEMP helps to bring grass root citizen contribution to the objectives of sustainable natural resources management and community wellbeing collectively. There exist a strong link between the rural poverty and the deforestation and forest management through community empowerment did show some improvement both to the resource conservation and improvement to the livelihood of the communities. However there were many challenges encounter in the process implementationinclude non-inclusive of stake holders because of social class or due to political affiliation, while projects are not evenly distributed among communities of serious need, others are un involve and ill-informed in terms of decision and actions, and lack of conservation culture, among communities. This paper implies that effective incorporation of forest management in rural development strategies should focus more attention to collective action, which ties the community on values, cultures, and economics benefits into the ecological project, with balancing the aim of sustaining the environment and poverty alleviation.

scholarly journals Community Managed Forest Groups and Preferences for REDD+ Contract Attributes: A Choice Experiment Survey of Communities in Nepal

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Sahan T.M. Dissanayake ◽  
Prakash Jha ◽  
Bhim Adhikari ◽  
Rajesh Bista ◽  
Randall Bluffstone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Institutional Structure ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Managed Forest ◽  
Community Forests ◽  
Contract Attributes

A significant portion of the world’s forests that are eligible for Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) payments are community managed forests. At the same time, there is a little knowledge in the existing literature about the preferences of households in the communities with community managed forests for REDD+ contracts.We use a choice experiment survey of rural communities in Nepal to understand the respondent’s preferences towards the institutional structure of REDD+ contracts. We split our sample across the communities with community managed forests groups and those without to see how the prior involvement in community managed forest groups’ impact preferences. Results show that respondents care about how the payments are divided between the households and the communities, the restrictions on firewood use, the restrictions on grazing and the level of payments. Finally we use a series of demographic interactions terms to analyze how the institutional arrangements and beliefs about climate change and benefits from the REDD+ program influence respondents’ beliefs. We find that there are no significant differences in the preferences for the REDD+ contract attributes between the Community Forests (CF) and non-CF respondent groups but we find that respondent groups differ in their beliefs about REDD+ payments and the institutional arrangements.Journal of Forest and Livelihood 13(1) May, 2015, Page : 8-19

Institutional choice and local legitimacy in community-based forest management: lessons from Cameroon

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. CAROLYN PEACH BROWN ◽  
JAMES P. LASSOIE
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Community Forest Management ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
Humid Forest ◽  
Community Forests ◽  
Humid Forest Zone ◽  
The Village

SUMMARYDecentralization of forest management has become a common policy globally which has allowed communities to regain rights removed through colonization and central state management of forests. However, socioeconomic and environmental outcomes of such community-based forest management schemes have been mixed. Studies have shown the importance of institutions in influencing the success of these new governance arrangements. Based on an extensive literature review supplemented by qualitative research, using focus groups and semi-structured interviews, conducted in nine villages in the humid forest zone comprising three community forests, this research investigated the successes and challenges from decentralization of forest management in Cameroon. A key constraint on success was the inappropriate institutional structure at the local level with responsibility to manage community forests. Community forest management committees with no internally recognized legitimacy and dominated by local elites had replaced roles once played by traditional authorities. Qualitative research showed that in the humid forest zone of Cameroon, the system of accountability for forest resources, prior to the enactment of community forest legislation, included those with historical traditional cultural authority, in the form of clan or lineage heads, as well as the village chief, a legacy of colonial power. Village chiefs or other members of the village council are also selected on the basis of their good moral character. Community forest management committees that are a hybrid of customary authorities and other representatives of the population chosen following the criteria for local legitimacy may capture the best of historical social regulation and build on it so that the local committee may be seen as being accountable to the local population. Since such hybrid institutions are not without their risks, it is important that these institutions be accountable to a local democratic government to further increase their transparency and accountability. Models of community-based natural resource management that incorporate culturally appropriate requirements of legitimacy and accountability in crafting local institutions may have more success in accomplishing both socioeconomic and environmental goals.

scholarly journals Flora of community managed forests of Palpa district, western Nepal

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 102-120
Author(s):  
Pratiksha Shrestha ◽  
Ram Prasad Chaudhary ◽  
Krishna Kumar Shrestha ◽  
Dharma Raj Dangol
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Flowering Plant ◽  
Floristic Diversity ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Managed Forest ◽  
Fuel Wood ◽  
Community Forests ◽  
High Species Richness

Floristic diversity is studied based on gender in two different management committee community forests (Barangdi-Kohal jointly managed community forest and Bansa-Gopal women managed community forest) of Palpa district, west Nepal. Square plot of 10m×10m size quadrat were laid for covering all forest areas and maintained minimum 40m distance between two quadrats. Altogether 68 plots (34 in each forest) were sampled. Both community forests had nearly same altitudinal range, aspect and slope but differed in different environmental variables and members of management committees. All the species present in quadrate and as well as outside the quadrate were recorded for analysis. There were 213 species of flowering plant belonging to 67 families and 182 genera. Barangdi-Kohal JM community forest had high species richness i.e. 176 species belonging to 64 families and 150 genera as compared to Bansa-Gopal WM community forest with 143 species belonging to 56 families and 129 genera. According to different life forms and family and genus wise jointly managed forest has high species richness than in women managed forest. Both community forest are banned for fodder, fuel wood and timber collection without permission of management comities. There is restriction of grazing in JM forest, whereas no restriction of grazing in WM forest.

scholarly journals Community forest management: Comparison of simulated production and financial returns from agarwood, tengkawang and rubber trees in West Kutai, Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
ABUBAKAR M. LAHJIE ◽  
ISMINARTI ISMINARTI ◽  
B.D.A.S. SIMARANGKIR ◽  
R. KRISTININGRUM ◽  
YOSEP RUSLIM
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Natural Rubber ◽  
Net Present Value ◽  
Financial Analysis ◽  
Community Forest Management ◽  
Financial Returns ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Net Benefit ◽  
Planted Forests ◽  
Annual Increment

Lahjie AM, Isminarti, Simarangkir BDAS, Kristiningrum, R, Ruslim Y. 2018. Community forest management: Comparison of simulated production and financial returns from agarwood, tengkawang and rubber trees in West Kutai, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 19: 126-133. Research was conducted in planted forests of agarwood (Aquilaria spp.) and tengkawang (Shorea macrophylla) and in plantations of natural rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) in West Kutai District, East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. The research aimed (i) to find out the productivity of agarwood and tengkawang trees in mixed plantings (ii) to measure their rate of development in order to estimate the maximum Mean Annual Increment (MAI) for agarwood and tengkawang and (iii) to carry out a comparison with natural rubber production of the investment feasibility of planted forests of these trees using a financial analysis of Pay Back Period, Net Present Value (NPV), Net Benefit/ Cost (B/C) Ratio and Internal rate of Return (IRR). The research was based on measurements carried out in plots, 0.25 ha in extent, selected by systematic random sampling from three model plantations. Plantation Model I was a combination of agarwood and tengkawang in one piece of land in which the agarwood trees were planted at a spacing of of 5m x 2.5m and the tengkawang tree were also planted at a spacing of 5m x 2.5m. This means that there were a total of 200 agarwood saplings and 200 tengkawang saplings in the plot. Model II was the combination of agarwood and tengkawang in one piece of land, in which 167 agarwood saplings were planted and 166 tengkawang saplings were planted in a different planting arrangement (at the planting distance of 5m x 3 m). Model III was rubber trees in an area of 0.25 ha with 119 saplings. The data for natural rubber were collected in series from the farmers. The measurement variables for agarwood and tenkawang included the diameter and height of trees using series measurement until they reached 30 years and then the results were simulated. The research findings showed that in Model I, agarwood was found to have higher maximum MAI while in Model II, tengkawang was found to have higher maximum MAI. This was the result of a silvicultural technique in which thinning, maintenance and intermediate harvest were carefully controlled. These two models were feasible for business because the values of their IRR were 14% and 13.3% respectively, while in Model III, rubber cultivation was not feasible for business because the value of its IRR was only 4.7%.

scholarly journals Vegetation Condition of Community-Managed Forests in Aik Bual Village and Setiling Village, Lombok Island

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Muhamad Husni Idris ◽  
Sitti Latifah ◽  
Budhy Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Diversity Index ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Vegetation Diversity ◽  
Durio Zibethinus ◽  
D 20

Community-based forest management practices vary according to biophysical and management factors. This study aimed to explain the vegetation conditions of community-based forest management in Aik Bual and Setiling village, Lombok Tengah. The study site was divided into protected forest areas (HL) in Aik Bual Village with a legal community forest permit (Aik Bual-HKm), HL in Setiling Village with no legal community forest permit (Setiling-Non Permit), and HL in Aik Bual Village with no legal community forest permit (Aik Bual-Non Permit). Field measurement was conducted in July 2018 by establishing 12 plots of 20 m x 20 m. Each plot consisted of subplots of 10 m x 10 m, 5 m x 5 m, and 2 m x 2 m to collect data of woody and non-woody plants with the criteria of diameter (D) as follows: D ≥ 20 cm, 10 cm ≤ D < 20 cm, 2 cm ≤ D <10 cm, and D < 2 cm with tree height of < 1,5 m, respectively. The results showed that Aik Bual-HKm, Setiling-Non Permit and Aik Bual-Non Permit had 24, 13 and 22 species, respectively. Dominant species of vegetation at D ≥ 20 cm were Erythrina variegata and Swietenia macrophylla, at 10 cm ≤ D < 20 cm were Musa paradisiaca and Durio zibethinus, at 2 cm ≤ D < 10 cm was Coffea canephora, and at D < 2 cm were C. canephora and S. macrophylla. Vegetation diversity index (H') of plants at D ≥ 2 cm in Aik Bual-HKm was slightly higher (H'=1,78) than that in Setiling-Non Permit (H’=1,04) and Aik Bual-Non Permit (H’=1,15), although these are classified as moderate. The results illustrated the possible differences of vegetation diversity in community-managed forests with and without legal permission.Keywords: agroforestry, land tenure, protected forest, vegetation analysis

Forest tenure and rights: a constraint to community forest management in Cameroon and the REDD+ initiative

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 121-129
Author(s):  
E. A. Enow ◽  
T. O. Egute ◽  
E. Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Community Forest Management ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
Forest Practices ◽  
Forest Tenure

The link between Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, with the enhancement of forest carbon stock (REDD+) and Community Forest Management (CFM) as a necessary local action on the forest, is continuously being challenged. CFM has been a suitable option in achieving sustainable forest practices in the tropics. The factors that contribute to its success will likely contribute to the success of REDD+ programs in Cameroon. Nevertheless, the opportunity and challenges in integrating the two concepts to achieve the objectives require careful analysis, considering the challenges facing the country’s tenure system. This article makes use of an in-depth content analysis of several documents concerning the subject matter and tries to examine the extent to which forest tenure and rights are a constraint to CFM in Cameroon and the REDD+ Initiative and assess how these concepts can work together to achieve sustainable forest management and a reduction in deforestation and forest degradation. The assessment shows several bottlenecks and discrepancies concerning tenure rights in the community forest and carbon rights when it concerns incentive-based benefit-sharing mechanisms under the REDD+ process. It reveals that the state may likely maintain centralization of forest tenure if the issues are not clarified. The article concludes with a proposal of an urgent need for domestic legal reforms to secure forest protection achieve the objectives of international forest policy initiatives like REDD+.

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