Ministry of Agricultural Development (MoAD) along with Department of Agriculture and Alliance of Agriculture for Food organized a program on 6 November 2017 with a view to celebrate 37th World Food Day. The major objectives of the program were to honor the best farmers from different parts of the Nepal and to showcase the food items and agricultural products used...
ForestAction Nepal and Nepal Foresters’ Association jointly organized a policy dialogue on “Forest Tenure Reform in Nepal: What role for implementers?” on 24 November 2017 at Indreni Foodland. The dialogue mainly focused underlining issues particularly on divided roles of different government agencies at the local, provincial and national levels and on the co-existence, col...
Promotion of Agroforestry for Rural Income Generation, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Kathmandu, Nepal 27-29 April, 2018
The growing migration and mobility of young, able bodied men and women are having profound effects on land and social relations in Nepal. And yet, much of the policy and public discussion is concerned with the contribution of migration to economic growth, on the one hand, and/or on safeguarding the rights of migrant workers in Nepal and destination countries, on the other. This public event ...
A book written by Frank Fischer, published by Oxford University Press entitled “Climate Crisis and Democratic Prospect” has presented the work of ForestAction Nepal on critical action research under a chapter “The Community Forest Movement in Nepal as Participatory Governance: Civil Society, Deliberative Politics, and Participatory Expertise&rd...
A National Sharing Workshop on 'Community based adaptive learning in management of conflicts and natural resources in Bangladesh and Nepal (CALCNR)' was organised by ForestAction Nepal on 31st October 2017 at Alfa-Beta complex.
Workshop focused on sharing overall research approaches and key findings of the entire CALCNR project. Four presentations were made by ForestAction Nepal, FHR...
From October 3, 2017 to October 6, 2017, a team from Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) headed by Dr. Steven Lawry, Director of Equal opportunities, Gender, Justice and Tenure at CIFOR, visited four community forest enterprises in Chitwan and Nawalparasi districts of Nepal. These visits and subsequent meetings at the four locations were facilitate...
ForestAction Nepal under the CALCNR extension project organised a photo exhibition at Dipdole-Etapu community forest on 12th September 2017. Group of youths comprising of five members, female stakeholder from executive committee of community forest (Ms Bhagwati Raut) and active male member of community (Rajkumar Deuja) were selected to capture through cameras the...
A half day interaction was held with ward members, mayor and deputy mayor at Chhyanath, Rara Municipality, Mugu on 11th September, 2017. The main objective of the training was to impart knowledge on constitutional arrangements; governance structure, roles, responsibilities and rights of the local government, strategies to influence decision making process related...
Community photo exhibition was organized by ForestAction Nepal under the CALCNR extension project at Chispani Community Forestry, Nawalparasi on 21st August 2017. The event covered 50 photographs taken by the community themselves to portray the issue of Natural Resource (NR) conflict between CF users of north and south.
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