Indian forest and wood certification scheme
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has launched the Indian Forest & Wood Certification Scheme. This national forest certification scheme offers voluntary third-party certification
Forest Management
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Contracting for forest carbon: elements of a forest carbon purchase agreement
Forest carbon payments
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Panel finds lacunae in implementation of FRA
NEW DELHI: A government committee has found the UPA government
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JDA asks its men not to fell trees but shift them
Civic body would only choose felling of trees as the last option to implement schemes Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) has decided to make a basic principle of relocation of trees instead of chopping for development projects in city.
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Sustainable forest management as a strategy to combat climate change: lessons from Mexican communities
This report is based on a study of success of the Mexican community forestry and why it
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Growing green assets: removing constraints to private sector investment in forestry in Asia and the Pacific
<p>Through a series of nine country case studies and regional analysis, this new publication details approaches and priorities for removing key impediments and streamlining forestry investment in the Asia-Pacific region.</p>
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Managing forests for climate change
The FAO has released a report entitled "Managing Forests for Climate Change," which examines the role of forests and sustainable forest management in climate change mitigation and adaptation. The report describes the FAO's integrated approach to sustainable forest management and outlines the ways forest management can help tackle climate change, including through carbon sequestration, strengthen
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Village common forests in Chittagong hill tracts, Bangladesh: balance between conservation and exploitation
<p>Indigenous communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) of Bangladesh are managing forests around their homesteads in a sustainable way despite exclusion of customary rights on government managed reserved forests,. Bangladesh, as one of the forest poor countries in the world, is continuously struggling to conserve its forest resources.
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Brainstorming session for sustainable forest management begins
A two-day expert consultation on
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Policies for reduced deforestation and their impact on agricultural production
Policies to effectively reduce deforestation are discussed within a land rent (von Th
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Recognition of forest rights and livelihoods of tribal communities: a study of Western Ghats region, Kerala state
<p>This monograph by Dr Jyothis Sathyapalan and Dr Gopinath Reddy is an attempt to understand the implementation processes of the Forest Rights Act 2006 in Kerala. The study also tried to evaluate the scope and feasibility of taking up the implementation of community rights and conservation duties in an integrated manner with the Participatory Forest Management (PFM) programmes of the state.