会议时间：2017年3月22—24日
会议地点：美国·洛杉矶·长滩会议娱乐中心
演讲嘉宾：Amit POUDYAL，IUCN（世界自然保护联盟）尼泊尔国家办事处

摘要：Community Forestry is considered to be one of the most successful programme, especially in Nepal. With more than three decades of field implementation, Nepal today has some 17,685 forest user groups across the nation, involving 1.45 million rural households (or 35% of the nation’s population) and managing over 1.65 million ha of forests (or over 25% of the nation’s forest area) (Department of Forests, Community Forest Division, 2014). However, there is a general tendency among academics, development professionals and field practitioners to assess and analyze community forestry’s impact from social, economic and cultural dimensions. There are relatively fewer studies that look at the entrepreneurship scope from community forestry.
This poster contributes to understanding the role of forest and farm services to enhance the livelihood of local people. Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) Programme, a joint global initiative, has been supporting forest and farm based producer groups and enterprises of Nepal on policy advocacy and facilitating on business development. Similarly, cross sector platforms are being catalysed at the local and national levels to improve access to business services and address policy problems of the producer organizations. The initial results show the importance role of such platform to enhance communication and if well streamlined within formal policy process, can be effective in managing forest based enterprises, which helps to enhance the livelihood of local communities. 

关键词：Community forestry, forests, local communities, livelihoods, entrepreneurship, empowerment