Editing Community-based economics (section)

=== Nepal ===
The state government of Nepal set up the Community Forestry programme in 1978, an initiative that saw community members being given full rights for the protection of forests. Around twenty thousand community forest user groups, including under two and a half million households are involved in the management of around two million hectares of community forest in Nepal.<ref>{{cite web |title=Overall Gaps and Challenges of Community Based Enterprise in Community Forests in Nepal |url=https://www.iucn.org/sites/dev/files/content/documents/fff_policy_brief_2.pdf |website=ICUN.org |publisher=International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources}}</ref>