 | RDF takes critical view of the issues related to the regulatory arrangements governing the access to and use of the natural resources, distribution of benefits from the resource uses, and seeks to promote the good governance principles through the quality research and analysis. more > |
| |  | Non timber forest resources greatly infuence on socio-economic development of local communities. In forests people gather firewood and forage for livestock, pasture animals and collect frouts and berries. Collecting and use of NTFR benefit people, especially poors and women, in ecomonic terms. more > |
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 | Project aims to develop, test and distribute the sustainable model of forest management joinly with local communities based on traditional ecological local knowlegde, as well as best world experience in the field of sustainable forest management. more > |
| |  | Natural resources along border areas are subject to multiple users' claims which are usually mediated to differing extent by traditional and formal norms and arrangements. However, these regulatory arrangements may prove inadequate or defunct to sustain regulative use of natural resources, leading to misunderstood disputes among users and even open conflict. more > |
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 | Not seasonal and irrational use of rangelands, and mass cutting of trees in Kok-Oirok led to degradiation of pastures. Irrational use of natural resources like wild herbs, berries and mushrooms by local people significantly reduced their growing areas. In this respect, local communities decided to find the way for solution of the problem on their own. more > |
| |  | Secondary pasture resources provide important and well-timed sources from which local communities derive their livelihoods. However, inadequate regulatory arrangements give rise to numerous conflicts among different users. The resulting inconsistencies spur multiple users to compete between each other in exploitative extraction of the same rangelands, leading to overexploitation of the available resource stocks. more > |
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