Are Forest Incomes Sustainable? Firewood and Timber Extraction and Productivity in Community Managed Forests in Nepal

The use and usefulness of inventory-based management planning to forest management: Evidence from community forestry in Nepal

“…This is in line with the overwhelming body of empirical evidence indicating that CFUGs in Nepal promote forest conservation (e.g. Nagendra et al, 2008;Ojha et al, 2009;Meilby et al, 2014). Thus, it appears that CFUG managers, despite being saddled with less useful OPs and without relying on these in their management, are generally capable of and interested in sustaining their community forests.…”

Effects of New Roads on Environmental Resource Use in the Central Himalaya

“…Therefore, based on these measures, it appears that efforts aimed at forest conservation in Lete are effective, even with increased access to markets provided by the new road. This may reflect the generally conservative harvest levels in community forests also noted elsewhere in Nepal [57]. As it stands, even if households are allowed to triple their rate of extraction, this will not jeopardize the state of the forests.…”

The relative importance of community forests, government forests, and private forests for household-level incomes in the Middle Hills of Nepal

“…Through a metaanalysis of 51 case studies from 17 countries, Vedeld et al (2007) revealed that forest environmental income represents on average 22% of the total income in the population sampled. Forest income contributes as high as 39% in Africa (Cavendish, 2000;Fisher, 2004;Mamo et al, 2007), 17-45% in Latin America (Godoy et al, 2002) and 3-31% in Asia (Aryal and Angelsen, 2007;Chhetri et al, 2015;Meilby et al, 2014;Illukpitiya and Yanagida, 2008;Rayamajhi et al, 2012). Although there are diverging views on the share of forest income to different Bonferroni's test: Relative share followed by a common superscripted letter indicates the difference between them is not significant at the 5% level.…”

“…Meilby et al (2014), using an environmentally augmented panel data set from three sites in Nepal, reported relative environmental incomes from 9.1-12.7% of total household income. They do not report variations across households but this is at the lower boundary of the global PEN data set (Angelsen et al, 2014).…”