Himalayan plants for people: sustainable trade for biodiversity and development
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main Project
VALUE £498,129
WHERE Nepal
Summary
This project aims to secure local incomes and healthcare, threatened by declining biodiversity and natural resource access, linked to overharvest of medicinal species in Nepal’s high Himalayas. It scales up a market-based model for sustainable, equitable trade across high-priority plant species and districts, while driving integration of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) into Community Forestry nationally. Locally-led activities include participatory inventories of NTFPs; training >5,000 harvesters/processors; enhancing Community Forest management and trade; and policy engagement to incentivise sustainable local biodiversity management.
ANSAB Nepal, MoFE - Ministry of Forests and Environment of Nepal, Federation of Community Forests User Groups Nepal (FECOFUN), RBGE - Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, ProFound – Advisers In Development, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen, University of Oxford
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