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Himalayan plants for people: sustainable trade for biodiversity and development

 

Key Facts

FUNDING SCHEME ICON
FUNDING SCHEME
Main Project
VALUE ICON
VALUE
£498,129
WHERE ICON
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.
 
Status Current
Reference 28-026
Round 27
Start 01/07/2021
End 30/06/2024

Project Leader

Lead Organisation

Project Partners
ANSAB Nepal, MoFE - Ministry of Forests and Environment of 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


Regions
South Asia

Biomes
RANGELAND, MOUNTAINS, TROPICAL FOREST, FORESTS, RANGELAND

Production
RANGELAND, FORESTRY, AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION, RANGELAND

Threats To Biodiversity
OVER EXPLOITATION

Broad Approches
SUSTAINABLE USE, INCENTIVES, POLICY, POVERTY REDUCTION, LIVELIHOODS, BENEFIT SHARING, COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT

Specific Tools
RESEARCH TRAINING, TRAINING, PARTICIPATORY, CEPA, MONITORING

Countries
Nepal

Conventions
CBD CITES ABS

Documents:
Download: Half Year Report - 28-026 HYR3 - 27/02/2024

Download: Annual Report - 28-026 AR2 - 07/09/2023

Download: Half Year Report - 28-026 HYR2 - 16/03/2023

Download: Annual Report - 28-026 AR1 - 07/03/2023

Download: Half Year Report - 28-026 HYR1 - 25/11/2021

Download: Application Form - 28-026 App - 23/08/2021