People in the mountainous region of are struggling only to get food to hold on their lives and the nearby forest gives them hopes to live. They have easy ways ahead to fetch fuel and fodders form the rich forest. People know that they are emptying the forest but don't know they are destroying lives and environment. This way, people are digging into the pit of poverty and downsizing their lives into it. The practice results in increased poverty and decreased biodiversity almost leaving nothing for the future. The question ahead, can't poverty be alleviated and biodiversity be improved? Isn't there any synergistic way that brings both the factor together? Or, how poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation be sustainable? The challenges in several ways are embedded in the book and the author applies different methods and experimentations to come up with a practical solution to the challenges.

The author makes a conclusion that enterprise-oriented community forest management can generate positive outcomes on both conservation and local livelihood. In the light of different approaches being tested and implemented to resolve conservation problems, the findings challenge the approaches that set communities aside from the forest resources and keep forest untouched. The author discovers high prospects for forest based enterprise development keeping eyes on the local, national as well as international markets of the products. He makes clear answers on how enterprise can help promote the biodiversity. Besides, the research has identified strategies and approaches that can bring favorable changes in government policies, market structure, and effective implementation of conservation programs. For the study, the author has selected six districts in the mountainous region of that is endowed with rich forest-based biodiversity and suffered with acute poverty.

The publication presents findings of an assessment on present and past initiative in community based forest enterprises. A total of 11 enterprise cases were studies representing several ownership options. Chapter 1 of the publication presents introductory part followed by objectives and methodology, chapter 2 imparts details on enterprise modalities and case studies, likewise chapter 3 has analyzed and discussed the enterprises and modalities and chapter 4 presents conclusion of the assessment and gives recommendation.

 ANSAB community-based forest enterprise development manuals are a useful tool for field based practitioners and development managers. The manuals are used extensively within and outside Nepal, and are available for sale. The manuals are outcome of ANSAB's pioneering endeavor in the areas of enterprise based biodiversity conservation for more than a decade. ANSAB also conducts customized training packages based on these manuals.
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The book is useful for those majorities of community people dependent on NTFPs for livelihood generation and who are still lacking proper knowledge on identification, cultivation and sustainable use of commercially important non-timber forest products. The book is also useful for the fieldworkers and facilitators of the relevant field.

Published as a promotional material, seabuckthorn is one of the many series of promotional publications. All the contents are descriptive along with introduction, types, available locations, edible and medicinal use, collection period, collection methods, forest management and its regeneration.

Written in Nepali language, the material also presents product development from seabuckthorn, ‘how to prepare juice’, its marketing and market price.

This is a proceedings of NTFPs National Policy Workshop conducted from July 4 to 5, 2003 which identified major opportunities and policy challenges of enterprise oriented resource management as well as different social, economic and environmental issues. The workshop identified appropriate policy interventions and prepared policy recommendations from national to the grass-root people, which have been collected as it is in this publication.

It is noteworthy to mention that “Herbs and NTFP Development Policy, 2061”, which has already been ratified, made the national workshop its basis for policy draft preparation.