Land Tenure
Status report by Department of Environment, GNCTD on environmental clearance to mining projects in Delhi, 29/04/2025
At present there is no State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA)/State Level Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC) existing in Delhi, stated the report filed by the Department of Environment, Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD), April 30, 2025. All cases related to environmental clearance are being dealt with by …Improving access to land and tenure security policy
The aim of this policy is to enhance IFADClimate change and land tenure: the implications of climate change for land tenure and land policy
This document analyzes the implications for land tenure and land policy of climate change. It assesses the implications of ongoing anthropogenic climate change resulting from greenhouse gas emissions for land tenure and the role that land policy can play in climate change adaptation planning in the developing world; it also …Farming made unprofitable
Poor support prices and costly agri inputs make a bad equation for farmers, Savvy Soumya Misra finds out What Mahendra Singh Tikait knows as a farmersSlum upgrading up close: experiences of six cities
This publication captures some of the key knowledge and shared learning from an international policy dialogue on theBasti redevelopment in Kolkata
The proposal by the West Bengal government to permit multi-storeyed buildings onBioenergy and land tenure: the implications of biofuels for land tenure and land policy
Recent years have witnessed a rapid and accelerating expansion of bioethanol and biodiesel production. This expansion is driven by government targets for biofuel substitution in energy budgets for transport, driven in turn by concerns about high oil prices, prospects for rural development, export opportunities and means to mitigate climate change. …World Resources 2008: roots of resilience - growing the wealth of the poor
World Resources 2008 explores what is necessary to allow such nature-based enterprises to scale up so as to have greater impactFuelling exclusion?: the biofuels boom and poor peoples access to land
What are the impacts of the increasing spread of biofuels on access to land in producer countries, particularly for poorer rural people? Biofuels could revitalise rural agriculture and livelihoods"Your Elephant on Our Land": The struggle to manage wildlife mobility on Zambian communal land in Kavango-Zambezi
Landscape connectivity that allows for wildlife mobility requires governance across a tenurial mosaic of managerial units based on reconciliation of social, economic, and ecological objectives. The proposed Kavango-Zambezi (KAZA) Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA), which includes Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Zambia, features a spectacular display of mega fauna and a …Nature of agricultural land lease contracts: A study of three villages in Anand district
The National Sample Survey Organization notes that in 2003, marginal and small farmers constituted 90.4 per cent of all farmers in India, but held only 43.4 per cent of land. The study was undertaken in Anand district of central Gujarat during September 2007.Browsing on fences: pastoral land rights, livelihoods and adaptation to climate change
This paper presents a brief overview of pastoral systems, analyses the rationale behind mobility as a strategy to cope with scarce and variable resource endowment, and finally addresses the rights concerning the access to and the control of resources in the context of climate change. The historical and geographical dimensions …Improving land access for Indias rural poor
India's states have employed several land reform measures, including reforming tenancy, imposing land ceilings, distributing government wasteland, and allocating house sites and homestead plots. With relatively modest revisions, some of the existing laws and policies can further their original intent of increasing the poor's access to rural land and providing …Key determinants of conflict between people and wildlife, particularly large carnivores, around Ruaha National Park, Tanzania
Human-wildlife conflict, particularly human-carnivore conflict, is a growing problem in today’s crowded world, and can have significant impacts on both human and wildlife populations. This study, based in the Idodi-Pawaga area adjacent to Tanzania’s Ruaha National Park, explored the main drivers of conflict between people and wildlife, particularly five focal …Relevance of socio-economic factors in the context of Indian land use planning: An overview
Land resources are limited and finite. There is bound to be conflict over land use. In a developing country like India, land use planning is applied at four broad scale: national, state, district and village (or small watershed). Different kinds of decisions are taken at such level, where the methods …History of tribal dislocation in Gudalur
1805: Nilambur Kovilgam, a ruler of a Kerala province, annexes 40,500 ha of Gudalur 1845: Kovilagam's successors (jenmies) start leasing out land to plantation companies. They also employ tenants to cultivate land directly under their control 1940s: Migration from Kerala; migrants are employed as tenants in jenmi lands 1950s and …The beleaguered Act
Section 2 (4): Forests include waste or arable lands containing trees, shrubs or reeds Section 3: Every Janmam estate including all communal pasture lands, forests, rivers, situated within the boundaries thereof shall be transferred to the government. Section 8: Under this section, jenmis (holders of the original Janmom land) are …Agrarian relations in tribal areas of Andhra Pradesh: Are conditions brewing for a heightened tribal land alienation?
Notwithstanding the legislative provisions to safeguard their landed interests, tribals are getting driven to circumstances in which retaining hold over the land under their possession is becoming difficult. The quality of land held by them is so poor that, in its present form, it cannot promise them any reasonable returns. …Interspatial total factor productivity analysis of alternative land lease arrangements in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh
The Bundelkhand region of India is a semi-arid plateau, which consists of twelve districts of northern Madhya Pradesh and five districts of southern Uttar Pradesh. The region suffers from severe ecological degradation induced primarily by the factors such as soil degradation and deforestation. Temporary and long-term migration of villagers from …Can payments for environmental services help reduce poverty? An exploration of the issues and the evidence to date from Latin America
This paper examines the main ways in which Payments for Environmental Services (PES) might affect poverty. PES may reduce poverty mainly by making payments to poor natural resource managers in upper watersheds. The extent of the impact depends on how many PES participants are in fact poor, on the poor’s …Promises and lies
fixated on extending the ‘feel good’ sentiment to the country’s 67.8 million tribals, the powers that be forgot where to draw the line. On February 5, the Union ministry of environment and forests (moef) released a circular stating that the land rights of tribals living in forests since 1993 or …