Leveraging poor people’s access to ownership and benefits of community-based forest enterprises: the role of an adaptive collaborative management approach
This paper examines the influence of an adaptive collaborative management approach (ACM) on poor people’s control over, and benefits from, a community-based non-timber forest product (NTFP) network enterprise in the Eastern Hills of Nepal. The approach involved shifts in governance and management, e...
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| author | Pandit, B.H. McDougall, C. Belcher, B. Kumar, C. Maharjan, M.R. |
| author_browse | Belcher, B. Kumar, C. Maharjan, M.R. McDougall, C. Pandit, B.H. |
| author_facet | Pandit, B.H. McDougall, C. Belcher, B. Kumar, C. Maharjan, M.R. |
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| description | This paper examines the influence of an adaptive collaborative management approach (ACM) on poor people’s control over, and benefits from, a community-based non-timber forest product (NTFP) network enterprise in the Eastern Hills of Nepal. The approach involved shifts in governance and management, especially regarding inclusion of marginalized people and the development of risk and uncertainty analysis. The major outcome of the network’s adoption of this approach is a redistribution of control over livelihood benefits from NTFP resources towards the “poorest of the poor” families in the enterprise area. Another notable change is that network members shifted from working in relative isolation to building alliances and greater interdependence, a change that helped mitigate conflicts between them regarding benefit sharing. Significant enterprise ownership and decision-making opportunities have been created for these poorer households by providing them access to revolving funds that enable them to become shareholders in the network enterprise. Furthermore, because of the learning-based collective action, this network has been able to increase its profit margin from sale of processed NTFPs. |
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| spelling | CGSpace198102025-01-24T14:12:04Z Leveraging poor people’s access to ownership and benefits of community-based forest enterprises: the role of an adaptive collaborative management approach Pandit, B.H. McDougall, C. Belcher, B. Kumar, C. Maharjan, M.R. non-timber forest products community forestry enterprises rural communities networking poverty collaboration adaptation This paper examines the influence of an adaptive collaborative management approach (ACM) on poor people’s control over, and benefits from, a community-based non-timber forest product (NTFP) network enterprise in the Eastern Hills of Nepal. The approach involved shifts in governance and management, especially regarding inclusion of marginalized people and the development of risk and uncertainty analysis. The major outcome of the network’s adoption of this approach is a redistribution of control over livelihood benefits from NTFP resources towards the “poorest of the poor” families in the enterprise area. Another notable change is that network members shifted from working in relative isolation to building alliances and greater interdependence, a change that helped mitigate conflicts between them regarding benefit sharing. Significant enterprise ownership and decision-making opportunities have been created for these poorer households by providing them access to revolving funds that enable them to become shareholders in the network enterprise. Furthermore, because of the learning-based collective action, this network has been able to increase its profit margin from sale of processed NTFPs. 2008 2012-06-04T09:12:45Z 2012-06-04T09:12:45Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/19810 en Pandit, B.H., McDougall, C., Belcher, B., Kumar, C., Maharjan, M.R. 2008. Leveraging poor people’s access to ownership and benefits of community-based forest enterprises: the role of an adaptive collaborative management approach . Insight: Notes from the Field (3) :45-55 [online] URL: http://www.recoftc.org/site/index.php?id=640. ISSN: 1905-6737. |
| spellingShingle | non-timber forest products community forestry enterprises rural communities networking poverty collaboration adaptation Pandit, B.H. McDougall, C. Belcher, B. Kumar, C. Maharjan, M.R. Leveraging poor people’s access to ownership and benefits of community-based forest enterprises: the role of an adaptive collaborative management approach |
| title | Leveraging poor people’s access to ownership and benefits of community-based forest enterprises: the role of an adaptive collaborative management approach |
| title_full | Leveraging poor people’s access to ownership and benefits of community-based forest enterprises: the role of an adaptive collaborative management approach |
| title_fullStr | Leveraging poor people’s access to ownership and benefits of community-based forest enterprises: the role of an adaptive collaborative management approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Leveraging poor people’s access to ownership and benefits of community-based forest enterprises: the role of an adaptive collaborative management approach |
| title_short | Leveraging poor people’s access to ownership and benefits of community-based forest enterprises: the role of an adaptive collaborative management approach |
| title_sort | leveraging poor people s access to ownership and benefits of community based forest enterprises the role of an adaptive collaborative management approach |
| topic | non-timber forest products community forestry enterprises rural communities networking poverty collaboration adaptation |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/19810 |
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