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 community forest management THE NEPALESE EXPERIENCE [1]

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In 1993, the Nepal government decided to hand over certain forest areas to rural communities. Six years later, 8,559 such communities are managing 621,942 hectares of forest land in the country. They are bent on accomplishing what the government has not been able to do

Publication Date: 
27/02/2000
Down to Earth [2]
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Forest Management [3], Joint Forest Management (JFM) [4], Forest Products [5], Public Participation [6], Governance [7], Community Groups [8], Nepal [9], India [10], Sustainable Development [11]

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[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sustainable-development