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Nepal at IUFRO conference on Gender and Forestry 2008

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:37:52 -0700

IUFRO recently organized an international conference on Gender and Forestry from November 16-19, 2008 in Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India. The conference explored experiences with gender sensitivity and gender analysis issues in forest management, organisations in the forestry sector as well as challenges to sustainable livelihoods of forest dwellers and users all over the world.

Presentations from 5th National Community Forestry Workshop

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:54:22 -0700

The presentations from the 5th National Community Forestry Workshop are now available online. The workshop was held from November 9-11, 2008 in Kathmandu.

Tropentag 2008: Competition for Resources in a Changing World

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:24:04 -0700

Full papers of the annual Conference on Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural and Natural Resource Management (TROPENTAG) held in October 7 - 9, 2008 in Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany are now available online. The Tropentag is a development-oriented and interdisciplinary conference.

Join Hands for Peoples' Sovereignty Over Forest Resources

suvas devkota — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:17:53 -0700

In general, the progress on CF in Terai is much slower than in hills due to the less attention of the government. Due to the policies (concept paper MoFSC, 2002, OFM, 1995) and administrative hurdle (illegal directions and circulations) of Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation (MoFSC), the Rights of Terai people over the forest resources have been deprived.

Nepal's national adaptation plan: The role of land rights

admin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:45:15 -0700

The international conference on Rights, Forests and Climate Change was recently held in Oslo, Norway from October 15-17, 2008. The conference was jointly hosted by the Rainforest Foundation Norway and the Rights and Resources Initiative with support from the CGIAR Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi).

At last they left Indrayani CF

suvas devkota — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:53:21 -0700

It is a short story of a community forestry users group of Indrayani CF of Dhanding . It explains how users group saved their CF from encroachers in a peaceful way.