5. • Altitude varies from 1400 to 1500 m
• Total househols: 227
– Magar : 197
– Kami (Dalit): 8
– Thakuri: 22
• Group formed: 19
• One ha land /per Household
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6. Leasehold Forestry
• A category of the national forest
• The forestland is leased to poor people groups
• The group gets an endowment for access rights with
a 40-year period
• District Forest Officer approves a plan for
management
• The group is assigned legal rights for management of
the forest and group
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7. Goal
A sustained reduction in the poverty of the poor HHs allocating
leasehold forestry plots through increased production of forest
products and livestock.
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9. Forest land
for lease
Group ( members 5
to 15 households)
Technical support by
hub office
Government of Nepal
(authorized to DFO)
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10. Institutional Set up
Constitution Preparation
By Group members
Support by DFO/TA to hub
technicians
Group / Executive committee formation
Minimum 5 HH Maximum 15 HH
Potential participants/member identification
Land holding < 0.5 ha/household
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19. Conclusion
• The entitlement received from the government has
empowered the people to manage the forest from
shifting cultivation mode to productive land.
• The intervention with all components of livelihood
assets is necessary to make people self reliant on a
regular income sources.
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20. Conclusion
• Interacting between livestock and forestry in
rural set up could enhance their livelihood
with diversified practice with a little effort but
should be continue with professional idea.
• It needs a regular service feedback and market
linkages for further enterprise development of
their efforts.
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21. Recommendations
• The success cycle and story could be replicate
into other shifting cultivated land and similar
characterized social set up in the country.
• Already started by a project Green Forestry
Programme (US funded) but needs
mainstreaming by all projects
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