For Environment, Democracy and Livelihoods
The 2nd National Silviculture Workshop was organised during 10-11 th May 2025 (27-28 Baishakh 2082) in Park Village, Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu. The two-day workshop, inaugurated by the Prime Minister, was designed with intensive sessions of keynote presentations, parallel technical sessions on specific thematic areas, panel discussion among others. The workshop provided the opportunity to revisit the updates and progress since the first workshop in 2017 and work out strategies to roll it out in the context of widely felt low economic return from forest resources. Being one of the co-organisers, FAN researchers (Naya Sharma Paudel and Aayush Gautam) actively contributed to various sessions including moderation of panel discussion and as commentators in other sessions. Our main contribution was to emphasise on adaptive silviculture in the context of changing socio-economic context and emerging environmental crisis.