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. …
MUMBAI: Ever heard of prime forest land across the state going missing? It appears to be unbelievable, but a cursory glance over the affidavit filed by the forest department and official report for 2008-09, leads one to the conclusion that over five lakh hectares of forest land is missing. Responding …
This is a critique by Environment Support Group of the weak review of the environmental and social impacts of the POSCO project in Orissa, and how this has resulted in making project affected communities into a 'rightless people'. This study is an effort to deeply enquire into the circumstances and …
State assures SC mining suspended in Bellary Asserting that it has suspended mining operations of six companies in Ramgarh and Swamimalai blocks in Sandur range and Bellary division, the Karnataka Government told the Supreme Court on Thursday that action would be taken against some officers for issuing false no-objection certificates …
Attappady tribes accuse department of helping windmill companies PALAKKAD: Tribal people have alleged that the Forest Department has been encroaching upon their land at Kottathara in Attappady, where some windmill companies had earlier allegedly tried to usurp their property. As in the local body elections last September, during the latest …
With forests coming under stress from a large number of development and infrastructure work happening all over the country, the Environment Ministry has advised companies not to locate their projects on forest land unless it was completely necessary to do so. The ministry has also issued a fresh directive telling …
This paper presents an overview of the distinctive features of communal tenure in different community-based land and natural resource management systems. Communal tenure refers to situations where groups, communities, or one or more villages have well defined, exclusive rights to jointly own and/or manage particular areas of natural resources such …
India’s maiden planned hill city that made news for bending rules and undertaking unauthorised construction may get the Centre’s nod, after all. The buzz is the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) may give conditional clearance to Lavasa, which is being developed in the Western Ghats, 65 km from …
As the world’s largest multi-ethnic democracy, India has a federal constitution that is well-equipped with administrative devices that offer apparent recognition and measures of self-governance to territorially concentrated ethnic groups. This article analyzes how demands for political autonomy—or statehood—within the federal system have been used as a frame for social …
The Compendium on Capacity for Implementing Land Based Mitigation has been produced in response to an identified demand from Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and other country officials for greater information on national policy contexts regarding the inclusion of land in the climate change solution.
As budgets are cut local authorities are selling off farmland without considering the long-term implications of losing a valuable asset for future generations. Tom Levitt reports. Local authorities in England and Wales have been letting out farm holdings for more than 100 years, providing a vital first step on the …
Scores of farmers and cadres of Communist Party of India (Marxist), including the party MLA K. Bala Bharathi, laid siege to the Tirumangalam taluk office protesting against acquisition of
The delay in notifying the Regional Plan 2021 is costing the State dearly as industries are forced to move out of Goa due to non-availability of land for industrial purpose. Goa
The Bombay High Court has given Lavasa Corporation Ltd six weeks' time to submit documents demanded by the Union ministry of environment and forests. Lavasa has time till March 10 to pacify the ministry, which had ordered the corporation to stop work on November 25 last year saying the township …
In a bid towards transparent and swift allocation of scarce natural resources, including airwaves, a high-powered government committee headed by former finance secretary Ashok Chawla will devise a policy matrix to suggest the changes required in the current methodology in different central ministries and departments. A report will be given …
As per this order by the Supreme Court, the transfer of village community land for private and commercial use is illegal and all state governments have been asked to prepare schemes for eviction of illegal occupants of village community land and restore them back for the purpose it was originally …
When patdehri (chief priest) Halu Thanapati, 68, gets possessed, he hastily dives into the badan khaal—the yoni of Goddess Duarseni, the supreme deity of his tribe—as though to suck the rare wisdom that ensures ‘existence’ on earth. The yoni is actually the mouth of a natural tunnel, which is independent …
Leader of the Opposition Oommen Chandy has alleged that the State government is cheating the tribal community by adding three clauses to an agreement reached between the then United Democratic Front government and the tribal leaders in 2002. At a press conference here on Thursday in connection with the Kerala …
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre, Goa Government and Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) asking them to maintain status quo, staying the November order of the Bombay High Court (Goa Bench) upholding the cancellation of land allotment to seven Special Economic Zone (SEZ firms). The direction …
ADB initiated the study on the Cross-Sectoral Implications of Biofuel Production and Use with the objective of generating scientific information on biofuel production and its use to facilitate implementation of the biofuel policy by the Government of India. The broad objective of the ADB assignment is to identify the policy …
