Conservation Practices at an Upper-Elevation Village of West Nepal

摘要: Chimkhola, an upper-elevation village located on the southeastern flank of Dhaulagiri Himal, has virtually no irrigated agricultural fields, but large areas widely dispersed, rain-fed fields and forest alpine pastures. Villagers fertilize by taking livestock onto for one to several weeks prior planting so that manure falls directly soil. The movement herds from field field, when all are planted, determines coordinates subsistence system. Of 17,035 dry weight kg products collected average household each year, 32.8 % is fuelwood herders, 23.8% fodder, 19.2% fuel houses. Shortages have relatively recently begun affect villagers established a series regulations designed conserve forests needed products. These measures, however, seem inadequate halt degradation process. Unless insure regeneration managing grazing browsing, change seems unlikely, current communally controlled agro-silvo-pastoral system will probably dissolve into individual action, with increasingly intensive production fewer, more spatially concentrated holdings fewer which kept close house fed fodder private trees.