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Copenhagen Accord and Nepal: Precise, appropriate projects needed

By Jagadish C. Baral

January 31, 2010 marked the deadline given by the UNFCCC to its member states to ratify the Copenhagen Accord, the deal that had witnessed a large scale controversy during the 15th Convention of Parties held in Copenhagen between December 7-18 last year. The roots of the major resentment lay on the undemocratic process it adopted as well as well as in the outcome which failed to result in an adequate, fair and binding (FAB) GHG reduction targets.

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Environmental justice through community forestry approach

Abstract: 

Community Forestry (CF) - one of the management models adopted by the Government of Nepal in late 1970s - has been a successful and innovative intervention in Nepal’s natural resource management practice. Approximately 25 percent of the total populations are directly involved in this process till the fall of 2009. Similarly, nearly 35 percent of total forest areas have been managed through this participatory and adaptive management system. The initial objectives of the greenery expansion and subsistence fulfilment of forest products have successfully been achieved.

Conservation aid rarely gets to intended beneficiaries

By Ramesh Prasad Bhusal

The forestry and conservation sector is flush with foreign aid. According to rough estimates, donors have pumped in up to 120 million dollars in Nepal’s community forestry since 1980, which is rather high. Receiving huge funds means nothing if the intended recipients don’t get the benefits.

The conservation sector depends largely on foreign aid and most of the projects are designed in the capital, setting ambitious objectives. But the real assessment of the work conducted in the field is rarely disclosed.

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How Mikania micrantha (Lahare banmara) destroy the forest and agricultural crops in residential area of Nepal?

What is Mikania micrantha ?

Mikania micrantha is a perennial creeping climber known for its vigorous and rampant growth. It is branchy, slender-stemmed perennial vine. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs along the stems and are heart-shaped or triangular with an acute tip and a broad base. Leaves may be 4-13cm long. The flowers, each 3-5mm long, are arranged in dense terminal or axillary corymbs. Individual florets are white to greenish-white. The seed is black, linear-oblong, five-angled and about 2mm long. Each seed has a terminal pappus of white bristles that facilitates dispersal by wind or on the hair of animals.

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सामुदायिक वन र बहुआयामिक सामाजिक विकास: पूर्वी नेपालको एक अनुभव

शारांस: सरकारद्धारा व्यवस्थित वन स्थानीय समुदायलाई सामुदायिक वनको रुपमा हस्तान्तरण गरिएपछि सक्रिय वन व्यवस्थापनबाट वनको हैसियत र सदुपयोगमा सुधार आएका कुरा सबले मनन गरेका छन् । यद्यपि समुदायिक वन मार्फत समग्र सामुदायिक विकासमा पुयाइरहेको उपलब्धिहरु र जीवनस्तरमा पुयाएको सकारात्मक प्रभाव तथा नतिजाहरुलाई भने राष्ट्रिय तहको नीति तथा कार्यक्रमहरुलै आवश्यकता अनुसारको महत्व नदिएका हुन कि भन्ने देखिन्छ । २०६५।०६६ सम्म गठन भएका पूर्वी पहाडी जिल्लाका ११०० सामुदायिक वनको अनुगमन तथा सर्वेक्षणबाट प्राप्त नतीजाका साथै वर्तमान वन क्षेत्रको नीति, सा.व.

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Copenhagen Accord and Nepal: Precise, appropriate projects needed
Environmental justice through community forestry approach
Conservation aid rarely gets to intended beneficiaries
How Mikania micrantha (Lahare banmara) destroy the forest and agricultural crops in residential area of Nepal?
सामुदायिक वन र बहुआयामिक सामाजिक विकास: पूर्वी नेपालको एक अनुभव
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