“…Forest products not only provide the rural population with subsistence needs like fuel wood, fodder, and litter, but also provide wild foods during the periods of food shortage when the grain storage starts dwindling and the new harvest is not yet available (see Khatri-Chhetri, 2006, Piya et al, 2011a). Many NTFPs also have medicinal (Rijal, 2008) and socio-cultural values (Aryal, 2007). Besides these subsistence uses, trade of NTFPs form a source of cash income for many of the rural population in Nepal (Chhetri and Gupta, 2006;Edwards, 1996;.…”