Water hyacinth Eichhornia crassipes (Jalakumbhi in Nepali) is an alien invasive species and now creating great environmental and economic problems covering major wetlands of the world. Nepal's wetlands are also greatly invaded by this obnoxious weed from which the social, economic and environmental sectors are facing serious problems for many years. In this context, Wetland Friends of Nepal (WFN) has carried out an experiment on making compost from this invasive weed in Begnas and Rupa Lake areas of Pokhara, Nepal with funding support from Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program of Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan. This paper provides an overview of the findings of the experiment of preparing compost from Water hyacinth. Key words: Water hyacinth, compost, experiment, NepalDOI: 10.3126/jowe.v2i1.1852 Journal of Wetlands Ecology, (2009) vol. 2, pp 17-19
This research paper describes the share of community forest income to the total income of users’ households and its role in minimizing the inequality among different socio-economic group of users. Community forests support 12.3% of total household income to poor, 4.06% to middle and only 2.78% to rich class households. As there is huge difference in household income between three classes, the absolute income of CF to rich class households is largest though it seems greater to the poor in percentage income terms. Share of household input in terms of annual household income is highest (10.6%) for poor class households and lowest (2.4%) for rich class. CF income has more equalizing effect in the household income of poor class households. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/init.v5i0.10245 The Initiation 2013 Vol.5; 16-22
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