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0000-0003-1942-1190
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University of Adelaide
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-01-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-06-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-05-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-05-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-05-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2015
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 18-02-2022
DOI: 10.3390/F13020333
Abstract: Multipurpose and ecological forest management frameworks are being increasingly applied across the Global North on public lands. However, the discourse and practice of public forest management in much of the developing world are captured by extreme approaches of single-crop (usually timber) production and strict canopy-cover protection, as exemplified by the case of Nepal. We combine insights from field research with published documents and trace the consequences of prevalent management regimes on the ecology and silviculture of Nepal’s public forests. We find that managing for either extreme of timber production or forest protection can degrade forest ecosystems and affect their capacity to address the increasing number of demands placed on them. A history of narrow management outlooks has erased indigenous silvicultural practices and discouraged the development of novel silvicultural solutions to address today’s environmental concerns. Government initiatives advancing singular objectives, such as Nepal’s Scientific Forest Management program, often crumble under political resistance. Forest users in Nepal are widely interested in generating erse benefits from their forests, including non-commercial products and services, suggesting a mandate for multipurpose management. We present a decentralized adaptive modality of multipurpose management featuring a silviculture that more closely matches the ecology of forests.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-02-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-01-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-03-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-06-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-12-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-05-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-03-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-01-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-07-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S10745-023-00423-Y
Abstract: Out-migration from small-scale agricultural holdings in Nepal’s middle hills is resulting in forest succession on abandoned land. Such early landscape transitions are often guided by policy to maintain a productivist path. However, farming households in rural Nepal are themselves transitioning from their dependence and attachment to the land. The walk and talk methodology was selected to follow up socioecological surveys with farmers in the middle hills to understand perceptions of forest succession on abandoned agricultural land. This participatory research methodology engages people in their own socio-ecological context – with farmers leading researchers along paths that advances dialogue over the course of the interview. Based on analysis of the discussions and observations of attitudes, perceptions of changing landuse and benefits associated with forest succession evolved with time since land abandonment. Early stage perceptions that focused on the loss of previously productive land developed over time to include attitudes of tolerance, acceptance and even commendation of the rewards gained from tree resources. The results infer that adaptation to the changing landscape is a continuous process that requires reflexive policies and supporting institutions that enable stages of adjustment during transition. Transition management that anticipates actors’ concerns from the outset could assist transformation of agricultural landscapes and improve resilience in the socio-ecological system for sustainable livelihood outcomes. Opportunities within each stage of transition, which include the promotion of successional agroforestry systems, require different forms of support as farmers adapt their outlooks to alternative landscapes and livelihoods that can create resilience through ersity.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-09-2020
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 13-10-2022
DOI: 10.3390/SU142013113
Abstract: The participation of youth in agricultural entrepreneurship (agripreneurship) is beneficial for the sustainable development of agrarian societies that are transitioning towards the commercialization of agriculture. Accordingly, we investigated the phenomena that motivate practicing young, small- and medium-scale agripreneurs to pursue their careers, using the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos) as a case study. To achieve this, we applied narrative inquiry techniques to the accounts of 74 young Laotian agripreneurs regarding their entry into agripreneurship. This enabled us to identify and describe common and influential paradigms that were subsequently interpreted from the perspective of entrepreneurship and behavioral studies of career decision making to explain the influence of motivations on the young agripreneurs. Our study has shown that despite the characteristics that set agripreneurship in Laos apart from entrepreneurship in general, commonly identified typologies of entrepreneurial motivation, particularly income, extrinsic benefits and emotional paradigms also motivate Lao youth to become agripreneurs. The application of narrative inquiry has revealed the emphasis some practicing agripreneurs in Laos place on the attainability of their career, which resulted in its practice by both opportunity-driven and necessity-driven entrepreneurs, with implications for the sustainable development of other countries in transition to commercial agriculture.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-03-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2018
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