5.3 Community forestryFrom the historical experience of changes in Nepaleseforest management, as described above, it is recognisedthat unless people are given user rights and ownership, orat least the authority to control and make decisions on thework plan of a forestry management system, people loseinterest in active practices of management, or conflictsemerge. In other words, co-operation and collectiveactions will be obtained by transferring authority andresponsibility for forest management, so that “the legitimate needs of these people for forest products were met”(Gilmour and Fisher 1998, 36) and incentives are madeavailable to collectively control the forest through thepractise of sustainable activities for income generation.