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 …
This study uses an evidence-based approach to provide insights into developing and maintaining collaborative arrangements in the forest sector. It aims to inform discussions and approaches to forest partnership and benefit-sharing arrangements. It also offers guidance on how to implement key factors that influence contract-based forest partnerships and benefit-sharing arrangements.
International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have published a policy brief summarizing the main findings of five workshops that aimed to promote a multi-sectoral dialogue among countries on improving forest law compliance. The brief highlights lessons learned from experiences on the ground and …
The Revised Operational Guidelines (2009) of the National Afforestation Programme (NAP) are being issued to further decentralise the project cycle management of the Scheme with a view to expedite fund transfer to the village-level implementing organisation, that is the Joint Forest Management Committees (JFMCs) and Eco-development Committees (EDCs), to embed …
It is not often one sees a king cobra hatching eggs in a human habitat or places where humans frequent. That is why hundreds of people gathered at the rubber plantation of Pappachy at Praiyaram, Panathur in Kasaragod district to see the king cobra sitting peacefully on some eggs the …
R. Rajaram 5,800 tonnes of babul and prosopsis firewood auctioned TIRUCHI: The Forest Department earned over Rs. 1 crore as revenue through open auction of plantations of
BHUBANESWAR: If there are those who think climate change will affect people who live only along the coast, they are mistaken. Tribal communities, who have been least-contributors to carbon emission, have suffered a lot during past one decade. At a public hearing which was mainly thought up to hear voices …
This booklet provides a range of case studies and other materials to make the forest sector more biodiversity-friendly, and socially beneficial. The guide: introduces public decision-makers to some techniques, technologies and procedures that optimize the social and environmental contributions of forestry and minimize negative impacts; presents good practice examples on …
In a bid to boost bilateral trade between the North-east and Egypt, the North East Trade Promotion and Development Council (NETPDC) and the Head of Economic and Commercial Bureau of Egyptian Embassy of India, have prepared a draft MoU. The MoU is the outcome of the two-day Business Summit initiated …
- Industry and forest departments join hands to utilise resource Jamshedpur, Oct. 20: The industries department will work with the forest department to utilise bamboo resources to the hilt, in a bid to save the weavers in Manusmudia village in East Singhbhum district from penury. The departments will soon sign …
Swati Garg / Kolkata October 20, 2009, 0:59 IST The global economic downturn has had a greater impact on the unorganised segment of the timber industry in Kolkata than is at first visible. The crisis has served to further highlight the differences in the way the organised and unorganised segments …
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa, which is poised for a massive growth in industrial, mining and power sectors will emit around 300 million tonnes of green houses gases (GHG), mostly carbon di-oxide (CO2) within the next five years. The memoramdum submitted to the Thirteenth Finance Commission by the State Government maintains that this …
Examples from Cameroon and other countries highlight the capacity of non-wood forest products to provide employment, income and sustenance in times of crisis
Poor governance is a major impediment to achieving development outcomes of the forest sector. It results in losses of income, employment, government revenues, and local and global environmental services. However, at present, no comprehensive guide to reforming forest governance has been developed. Although usually it is relatively easy to recognize …
Flood-hit people of north Bihar now opt to cremate bodies with cow dung cakes Hard hit after floods for three-four months every year people of north Bihar have devised a novel way to cremate bodies. And, this local innovation is not only catching up fast among them but has also …
It is not going to be easy for India to meet its commitment to the World Health Organisation (WHO) to bring down tobacco production by 50 per cent in the next one decade. Tobacco output in India is estimated to be more than 700 million kg in 2009-10 due to …
The focus of the World Bamboo Congress, starting today in Thailand, will be to promote and develop Brahmaputra-Mekong Valley axis for sustainable bamboo development, reports PTI. World Bamboo Organisation (WBO) president Kamesh Salam, who is also the Director of Cane and Bamboo Technology Centre (CBTC), told PTI the brainstorming session …
TURA: The vast resources of raw bamboos found abundantly in the Garo Hills region is expected to transform the economy of the region, particularly the farmers, once it is converted into finished products. The North Eastern Region Community Resource Management Project (NERCORP) in collaboration with the North Eastern Council (NEC) …
