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...