Regenerating Forests and Livelihoods in Nepal

A New Lease on Life

Edited by Benoit Thierry
Paperback
January 2016
9781780646329
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  • Publisher
    CABI
  • Published
    6th January 2016
  • ISBN 9781780646329
  • Language English
  • Pages 264 pp.
  • Size 5.5" x 8.25"
$40.00
Hardback
January 2016
9781780646312
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  • Publisher
    CABI
  • Published
    6th January 2016
  • ISBN 9781780646312
  • Language English
  • Pages 264 pp.
  • Size 5.5" x 8.25"
$132.90

Regenerating Forests and Livelihoods in Nepal: A New Lease on Life documents the success story of an innovative rural development program in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal. The project has made a real difference by transforming increasingly degraded land, where farmers carved out a meagre existence, into a fertile and prosperous zone where they could thrive.

Project activities included bringing in effective cultivation techniques to protect the environment and introducing new local crops and goats, as well as promoting entrepreneurial spirit. Every intervention was carefully selected and conducted to mitigate climate change as well as to help farmers become more resilient to its effects.

The ingredients of the project's success, from both the technical and human perspectives, are presented in this book, demonstrating people's commitment in a country prone to natural disasters and earthquakes.

Preface/Foreword
Glossary of acronyms
Introduction

1. Rural Nepal: its people, its forests
2. An initiative takes root – the first leasehold forestry project
3. The initiative gathers force – the second leasehold forestry project
4. Impacts of leasehold forestry
5. Beyond the two projects, a national perspective
6. When the program leaves
7. Conclusions

Benoit Thierry

Benoit Thierry is at IFAD, Italy.