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The Upper Arun valley lies on the eastern edge of the Makalu-Barun National Park and Buffer Zone in north east Nepal (Sankhuwasabha District). Locally known as the Bhotkhola, this region was closed to foreign visitors until 2003 and still remains one of the most remote and least visited areas. Travel here is exclusively on foot and involves 6-8 days of strenuous trekking from the...
Sagarmatha National Park (SNP), gazetted in July 1976, is Nepal’s second most visited national park in the mountain region and is also of global, cultural, and environmental importance. SNP is one of the world’s premier mountain tourism regions, containing four of the world’s mountain peaks over 8000m. There are 3500 Sherpas living inside the SNP area for over four centuries...
Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas: Guidelines for Planning and Management, a landmark publication jointly published by UNEP, The World Conservation Unit (IUCN) and the World Tourism Organization (WTO) is a contribution to the International Year of Ecotourism 2002. The publication aims to assist protected area managers and other stakeholders in the planning and...
Forests have multiple environmental and socio-economic functions that are vital at global, national and local levels. Accurate, reliable, up-to-date and easily accessible information on the state of forest resources is crucial to support policy making and planning in forestry sector. In Nepal, the last National Forest Inventory (NFI) was carried out in the nineties. According to that inventory...
There is a tendency among agencies engaged in installing water supplies in Nepal to claim that their drinking-water projects can deliver sustainable practical benefits to women and men in the project communities. On the other hand, study of the water-supply interventions of some agencies, including non-governmental, bilateral, and government organisations, carried out from a gender perspective...
Increasing women’s access to land is crucial to fight hunger and poverty. However, gender disparities in land access remain significant in most countries, regardless of their level of development. A new FAO database helps to understand the factors that prevent women from accessing land; and to design better policies to effectively address this situation.
Foreign acquisitions of farm land in developing countries have become the focus of concern. Many observers consider them a new form of colonialism that threatens food security of the poor. However, investments could be good news if the objectives of land purchasers are reconciled with the investment needs of developing countries.
The paper finds that land for agriculture in...
Human wellbeing relies on our ability to exploit our diverse and often fragile natural environment sustainably and into the far distant future. If there is no such thing as environmentally neutral economic growth, there is certainly an increasing number of options for sustainable human and social development. Such new approaches are essential to the achievement of the United Nations Millennium...
The area set aside for conservation by concerned governments and communities covers almost 12 per cent of the Earth's land surface. Protected areas are such a significant factor in the planet's natural resource allocation that they are important indicators in global environment monitoring. Recognition of the importance of participatory approaches and the values of community-conserved areas...
Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) have been widely promoted as a potential solution to high rates of tropical deforestation, by increasing the value of forest resources to local people. The content of this book is based around findings from a DFID/FRP funded international research project that has examined why commercialisation of NTFPs does not consistently contribute to poverty alleviation...
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