World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Displacement
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Livelihood, conservation and conflict over natural resources within protected areas (A case study of Kanha national park)
Conflicts over natural resource access goes back a long way in history ever since national parks became the best insitu method of protecting endangered biodiversity and received legal sanction all over the globe.
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A travesty of justice
The new rehabilitation policy for project displaced persons is official jargon mongering
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Displacement without rehabilitation: adivasis of Alirajpur Tehsil, Jhabua Dist., Madhya Pradesh – a report and survey of eight villages
The villages of Alirajpur are the first in Madhya Pradesh to be affected by the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP). They are all Adivasi communities with a mixed economy based on agriculture (on titled land
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United effort
To halt dam linked dislocation
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The state cannot deprive people
WALTER FERNANDES, who has worked extensively for tribes and on tribal issues, talks to SURYA SEN
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In search of the missing
In the undivided Koraput district of Orissa, there exist 190 villages that have slowly been pushed off the map of India. Hurled by fast track development into what the state officially calls a cut off region hills submerged by the stilled waters of h
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Emerging paradigms in environmental conservation and management
<p>Concepts of environmental conservation and management are directly linked to the practice of development. Development has been seen as not only an instrument to increase production, but also to remove poverty. But anti-poverty schemes in India have not been sustainable and are conditioned by the kind of finance available for their implementation.</p>
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Displacement from protected areas and its implications for conservation and livelihoods - The case of Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh
<p>The designation of Protected Areas (PAs) for biodiversity conservation had had negative implications for communities that derive their sustenance from such areas. Apart from restrictions on resource use, there have also been instances of people being displaced from areas that they had inhabited and that had been designated subsequently as PAs.</p>
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Battle zone: Humans vs elephants
Afterwards, an eerie silence envelops the field. There is only the crop