Natural resource management: A. I. D. 's experience in Nepal. Occasional paper

Technical Report · Mon Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:5131367

Chew, S T

Since 1980, the Agency for International Development (A.I.D.) has invested about $77 million in projects to improve Nepal's natural resource management. The paper reviews the two largest projects; it also describes how USAID/Nepal is supporting multidonor forestry projects. The review identifies several important lessons. USAID/Nepal has been more effective in influencing policymaking and institutional changes when supporting multidonor projects than when acting alone. The reviewed projects underscore the difficulty of implementing large projects that involve technologies far beyond the host country's capabilities. More importantly, they demonstrate that support for resource conservation need not always be technically sophisticated, but sometimes can -- and should -- begin by integrating research and extension activities into existing agricultural and rural development projects. To gain farmer support, such activities should increase livestock and tree production without compromising food crop production. Efforts to decentralize forestry management should not stop at the local government but should involve the affected communities themselves.

• Research Organization: Agency for International Development, Washington, DC (United States). Bureau for Program and Policy Coordination
• OSTI ID: 5131367
• Report Number(s): PB-91-209981/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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