The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
The Joint Forest Management Committees in the State will observe Bamboo Plantation and Energy Conservation Week from Monday. The year 2010 is being observed as Bamboo Year in the State. This year, five crore bamboo rhizomes will be planted in the State. The Joint Forest Committees have been formed for …
By 2020 tobacco will be responsible for 13 per cent of all deaths in India and millions of people are likely to die prematurely due to smoking, reveals a latest study. Funded by the Bloomberg Global initiative to reduce tobacco, the study
Andhra Pradesh tobacco farmers have written to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi asking her to facilitate the banning of foreign direct investment (FDI) in cigarette manufacturing. With one letter from the commerce ministry already having been presented before the Cabinet in support of the ban, the ministry has been directed to …
Toeing the line of its superior court that has embarked upon weeding out waste paper and sending them for recycling, the district courts in Delhi are now set to adopt paper-saving measures. A directive underlining the necessity of saving paper has asked all judicial officers to do their bit while …
State now produces a quarter of the country's pulp yield. This initiative has helped create green cover for carbon sequestration, ground water recharge, regeneration of biomass and in nurturing of depleted soils. V Rishi Kumar What started as a small initiative by the diversified ITC Ltd.several years ago, to change …
Recently, there has been considerable satisfaction and pride in official circles over the fact that the country has added to its green cover. Officials seem to believe that the rate of deforestation has been arrested. On the face of it, it certainly seems to be a matter of joy. But …
The growing risks involved in farming muga, the unique organic silk of Assam, have made many farmers of this precious golden silk, to change over to rubber plantation. This development is particularly discernable in three Lower Assam districts. While the trend has been assuming a general character among the muga …
The Assam Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) Limited today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Kohinoor Pulp and Paper Private Limited, Kolkata for a mega project in the State. The Kohinoor Pulp and Paper is coming up with a mega Greenfield pulp and paper manufacturing unit at the Industrial …
This new forest policy of J&K focuses on the role of forests in poverty alleviation and supporting livelihood needs of communities. Also emphasizes on carbon sequestration, revenue generation by development of non-timber forest produce & eco-tourism. See Also Report: J & K Forest (Conservation) Act, 1997 www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/305746Report: India State of …
This toolkit which aims to support the finance sector in progressing towards the sustainable financing of industries impacting forests. It provides financial institutions with guidance in client acceptance procedures, portfolio management, designing a clear and pragmatic forestry policy and the creation of internal procurement policies for forestry products. The toolkit …
ANIRBAN CHOUDHURI The site of the eco-tourism spot in North Poro. (Anirban Choudhuri) Alipurduar, Jan. 14: The forest department has decided to develop an eco-tourism spot at the Buxa Tiger Reserve, where eight men had died in encounters with forest guards over timber smuggling in the past five years. Villagers …
This report builds on the initiatives of the Asia Forest Partnership and East Asia and Pacific FLEG to promote cooperation among Customs, Forestry and other authorities to reduce the trade of illegal wood products. The goal of this review is to assist Customs and timber trade regulating agencies in their …
This report illustrates two alternative approaches to promoting sustainable woodfuel production by farmers and communities with a commercial focus. The report aims to provide readers with a thorough analysis of these two approaches, focusing on strategic aspects, guiding principles, overall results, and lessons learned. These approaches are: Community Based Woodfuel …
This draft of the first ever individual forest policy for Rajasthan acknowledges fast depleting forest cover. It aims to bring additional 45,000 sq km of area under afforestation & pasture development and says that participation of local community shall be central to forest management. The basic objectives of State Forest …
Ignatius Pereira KOLLAM: Efforts started by the Tripura government and the Rubber Board in 1995 to guide the Adivasi population of that State away from the path of terrorism and bring them to the mainstream through a rubber-plantation programme have started bearing fruit. To assess this success story through an …
The J&K; Police have seized a massive consignment of red sanders, a fragrant timber in great demand for cabinet work and also used as dyewood, from a village in Leh where it had been ferried all the way from Andhra Pradesh to be smuggled across to China. Police said they …
AS climate change and its effects begin to dawn upon the world, clean development technologies has started finding more takers, and the small hill state of Uttarakhand is one of them. With lakhs of hectares carpeted with shed pine needles, the Uttarakhand forest department is planning to employ these as …
The dominant mode of business practice in the African forest sector - especially in the high forest cover regions - comes in the form of concessionaires operating on publicly held lands.
