For Environment, Democracy and Livelihoods
Tackling Terai forest governance deadlock. Can district-level multi-stakeholder processes help?
The conflict in the Terai CF is also aggravated by some geo-political conflicts between the native Terai populations, the so-called distant users, and other ethnic groups who had migrated from the hills, who live near forests. Several national policy and strategic documents underline the scope for different participatory modalities to manage the state forests. These documents stress the prioritization of programmes complementary to CF (e.g. leasehold forestry) for managing the state forests. It was increasingly realized in the 1990s that deforestation and degradation of Terai forests were on the rise as the principles of scientific management applied there did not deliver and encroachments continues. The need for addressing the second generation issues concerning the CF became more evident in the Terai
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