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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Voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land and other natural resources- Zero Draft
<p>The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has opened for comment the Zero Draft of the "Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and Other Natural Resources." The Zero Draft addresses issues including: guiding objectives and principles of responsible tenure governance; policy, legal and organizational frameworks; legal recognition and allocatio
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Secret dam
<p>It took the Jharkhand government a murder, an abduction and angry protests to stop construction of a dam that began in a tribal heartland without informing people whose land was acquired.</p>
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613 families to be displaced for Posco project
Seeking cooperation from the locals for establishment of the Rs 52,000 crore Posco project near Paradip, the State Government on Wednesday said only 613 families would be displaced because of the mega steel plant. While the number of families facing displacement due to the project was initially put at 803, it came down to 613 after the State Government decided not to acquire private land at Dhi
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Ready to resist
Villagers of Dhinkia in Jagatsinghpur are preparing for an all-out battle to defeat attempts to implement the Posco project. VISITORS to Dhinkia in Jagatsinghpur district in Orissa are stopped at the barricades at its entry points.
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Impact of ASEAN-India preferential trade agreement on plantation commodities: A simulation analysis
<p>This study analyses the impact of the asean-India Preferential Trade Agreement on plantation commodities – coffee, tea and pepper – using the smart and gravity models. This reveals that the agreement may cause a significant increase in India’s imports of plantation commodities from the asean countries, which is mostly driven by trade creation rather than trade diversion.
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Govt didn't submit assurance on Posco project
Bhubaneswar: Though a month has elapsed since the Centre accorded conditional clearance to the Posco project, the Odisha government finds it tough to submit its assurance to the ministry of environment and forest on proper implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006. While giving conditional clearance to the Rs 52,000 crore project on January 31, the Centre had sought written assurance from t
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Fresh petitions from villagers come in way of Posco clearance
Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government is struggling to assure the Union environment ministry in writing that diversion of forest land for the Posco steel project will not infringe on the Forest Rights Act. Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh cleared the project on January 31 and the Naveen Patnaik government in Orissa was to send the crucial assurance by the second week of February.
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Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity
<p>A central challenge for sustainability is how to preserve forest ecosystems and the services that they provide us while enhancing food production. This challenge for developing countries confronts the force of economic globalization, which seeks cropland that is shrinking in availability and triggers deforestation.
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Climate Change Liability
This is the Presentation delivered by Adiya Ghosh of Centre for Science and Environment, at International Conference on 'Compliance and Liability in Climate Change Negotiations' organized by CSE on 1 March 2011 at New Delhi. The presentation provides an introduction to liability and the Loss and Damage concept.
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Coastal Fisher Folks of Bangladesh, the Victims of Climate Change and the Legal Response to Loss and Damage
This is the Presentation delivered by Hafijul Islam Khan, Bangladesh Environmental Law Association, at International Conference on 'Compliance and Liability in Climate Change Negotiations' organized by CSE on 1 March 2011 at New Delhi. The presentation deals with the issue on compensation of climate vulnerable poor people. It presents the case study of coastal fisher folks of Bangladesh.