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Entrepreneurship and Women Entrepreneurship in Global Context During the last few decades, recognition has been given to the importance of women's entrepreneurship as a prerequisite for household-level poverty alleviation, national economic development, and the empowerment of women (Mayoux 2001a). Entrepreneurship, further specifying women entrepreneurship has become a buzz word for the developing and least developed countries. The term 'entrepreneur' means one who 'undertakes the organization and management of an enterprise involving innovativeness, independence and risk, as well as the opportunity for profit' (Timmons and Spinelli, 2006). Innovation enables an entrepreneur to venture into new technology, products, and markets, while independence and risk-taking is required in every stage of the business from start­ up to expansion (Ming-Yen 2007). One will have to agree that leadership and innovativeness, besides other characters, is extremely important for ...

In 2014, the estimated world’s total forest area was more than 4 billion hectares (corresponding to about 31 percent of total land area)  (FAO, 2015) . About 1.6 billion people depend on forest for their livelihood. Moreover, to more than 80 percent of all terrestrial species of animals, plants and insects, forest serves as their home  (UN, 2016) . In addition to providing food, security and shelter, forest play a vital role in fighting the climate change, protecting biodiversity and the homes of the indigenous population. It is estimated that about thirteen million hectares of the forests are being lost every year  (UN, 2016) . With the aim of involving communities and smallholders in forest management and governance, community based forestry (CBF) has received a considerable amount of attention over the years. In this time period there has been a substantial increase in the forest area under several regimes. It is estimated that to date almost one-third of the wor...

Agriculture at a Glance Since over two decades, Nepal holds the pride of declaring itself an agriculture dominated country, Nepali might have a different opinion though. Nepal is still an agro-based country but the development of agriculture always stands as a question. Besides farming; diary processing, poultry, tea, vegetable seed and fisheries are the sectors that contribute to the growth of agriculture. Limited use of technology and most of the arable lands being used for food crops has led to the lag in achievement of the estimated growth rate. Agriculture has continually provided a comprehensive base to the Nepali economy, thus, directly and indirectly, the growth coined by agriculture holds very high potential to have relatively eclectic impact on both poverty reduction and sustainable development. Nepali agriculture, whether somebody likes it or not, is one of small family farms, primarily subsistence oriented and yet not sufficient of supporting the adequate subsiste...