An assessment of cost and benefits of two selected Community Forest

ISBN-13: 9783659680588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 68 str.

Khadka Bina

Opis

Community Forestry (CF) is instrumental in providing rural households and communities with various forest products and for sustaining of the rural livelihoods. Cost and benefit analysis of Community Forest (CF) is a means to reveals its actual contribution in user's livelihood and their household income. This study was conducted with the objective of evaluation of cost and benefit of rural households in two selected CFs (Badikhel and Godawari VDCs) of Lalitpur district, Nepal. Benefit-cost ratios shows that rich people are getting more benefit by bearing low costs. The annual household income was more in medium class. Users of different socio-economic classes are involved in different forest management activities and getting benefits from CF in the form of different kinds of forest products. Given the unequal social structure in terms of class, caste, gender and regional disparity, there is unequal access to decision-making. In this context, it is necessary to have in-depth economic analysis of total forest benefit.assessing economic contribution of CF is examining the economic values of the forest products and their importance to the user's livelihood.

O autorze

By profession Regional Coordinator at HuRENDEC Nepal, Kalikot. Completed Master in Environmental Science from College of Applied Sciences Nepal, in 2012 which is affiliated to Tribhuwan University.B.Sc from Tri chandra College, Nepal, affiliated to Tribhuwan University in 2005. I have completed the project on April 2012.