Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
SC Panel Suggests Relief By Paying Afforestation Dues Mumbai: The Central Empowerment Committee (CEC) of the Supreme Court has suggested that people residing on forest land prior to June 22, 2005, should be granted immediate relief on payment of afforestation charges which comes to between Rs 8 lakh and Rs …
A large agricultural area located in 20 km north of the city of Mashhad in the north-east of Iran is subject to land subsidence. The subsidence rate was achieved in a couple of sparse points by precise leveling between 1995 and 2005, and continuous GPS measurements obtained from 2005 to …
Logged on Dhanbad, Feb. 19: Aimed at ensuring greater transparency and connectivity, the Dhanbad forest division has floated a website www.dhanbadforest.org. The website, which includes information on the history and biodiversity of forests in the division, was launched last Monday and is the first of its kind in the state. …
The Nalbari Zila Krishak Sabha has decided to resort to an agitation in demand of land pattas to the genuine farmers who have been deprived due to wrong government policies. The Krishak Sabha, in its recently concluded two-day conference held at Ghograpar, adopted a number of resolutions in the interest …
COMPILED BY ROHINI RAMAKRISHNAN Thousands of people, a majority of them tribal, have formed a 17 km (10.5 miles) human chain around the Niyamgiri hills in Orissa. They were protesting against plans to start bauxite mining in the hills by a U.K.-based multinational company. The Supreme Court last year said …
HERALD CORRESPONDENT PONDA, FEB 2 Resolving that agriculture land should be protected from being sold to real estate developers, the Kisan Sangh (Goa unit) has also demanded that mining leases should not be renewed and that new mining permissions should not be granted. The three resolutions were passed at the …
NEW DELHI: The numbers say it all. The extent of encroachment of protected Aravali forest land by land sharks in Faridabad and Gurgaon is evident from the number of cases filed against violators, and the convictions, in the past decade. An official report states that a staggering 10,012 cases were …
Dipak Kumar Dash | TNN New Delhi: The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has started the process of identifying constructions encroaching on the Aravali range in Faridabad. In the past, several farmhouses have been demolished in Gurgaon for being on forest land and for not having the relevant clearances. Senior Haryana …
This paper was prepared as background to the workshop in SEA, held in Hanoi, Vietnam from January 19 to 21, 2009. The paper is intended to identify key development issues relating to land and water management in the less developed countries of the Himalayan and SEA regions, and how these …
There is clearly an institutionalized attitude of neglect towards the displaced people. For example no record of the number of people displaced is maintained. Such attitudes prevent the bureaucratic mindset from understanding the enormity of what is involved when tribal people, stripped of their land, are forcibly dumped to unlivable …
This report provides an overview of the range of key livelihoods and production systems in the Blue Nile Basin. It is highlighting their relative dependence on, and vulnerability to, water resources and water-related ecosystem services in the catchments. It also elucidates current water and land related policies and institutions. The …
Mangalore farmers say land not sold the Mangalore Special Economic Zone limited, or msez, has been razing crops over six hectares (ha) of farmland belonging to the Kudubi tribe living in Perumude village in Dakshin Kannada district of Karnataka since the night of October 21. While the company claimed that …
For the tribals of villages in the Gumla and Khunti districts of Jharkhand, where the Arcelor-Mittal steel plant is to be situated, the company does not spell employment opportunities as much as an annihilation of their way of life, their culture and the environment. Unconvinced by the rehabilitation and resettlement …
Chief minister Shibu Soren today released a book, Jharkhand Paridrishya, written by Ranchi additional collector Sunil Kumar Singh. Published by Crown Publications, the book contains 629 pages and gives the reader a complete overview of the state carved out of Bihar in 2000. Singh had also written a number of …
Orissa holds back excess land allotted to industry arcelor Mittal, Jindal Steel and Power and Bhushan Steel may lose some of the land allotted for their proposed plants in Orissa, with the state government deciding to reassess the land requirement of industries. The focus is on the steel industry, which …
Ranchi, Oct. 30: In a bid to oppose mindless industrialisation and mining in the state, Jharkhand Mines Area Co-ordination Committee (JMACC) began a five-day rally at the Birsa Munda Samadhi Sthal today. The rally would conclude on November 2 at Charhi where Tapas Soren, a worker under the NREGA scheme, …
