Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
For the last few decades and more particularly since 1990’s the issue of human rights-violation of rights to life and livelihood of tribal peoples’ is a central concern. Therefore, the discourse on tribal movements and issues of tribal livelihood revolved around securing their well-defined rights on land and forest resources. …
The Mizoram Government has launched an ambitious Rs 2,873 crore new land use policy to solve food scarcity by moving away from shifting cultivation to permanent farming. Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla launched the programme recently by distributing Rs 20,000 each to 400 farmers at a function in Aizawl. Simultaneously, …
Biomass burning is an essential part of slash-and-burn (S&B;) agriculture, which is widely practiced as an important food production system in the tropical mountains of southeast Asia.S&B; agriculture used to be sustainable and carbon neutral; CO2 emissions by biomass burning were balanced with photosynthetic biomass growth and land use was …
Fire plays important role in shaping ecosystem structure and function. Depending upon the complex effects of fire, it can have either beneficial or harmful effects. In this article, we briefly review the potential of satellite remote sensing data for mapping and monitoring vegetation fires.
KOHIMA, Dec 15: The Minister for the Development of the North-Eastern Region (DoNER) BK Handique today called upon the policy planners and farmers of the Northeast to adopt fusion of traditional practices and modern technologies to make agriculture sustainable in the region. Handique pointed out that the agricultural practices continued …
This report by National Committee on Forest Rights Act (FRA) submitted by N C Saxena to Shri Kantilal Bhuria, Union Minister of tribal affairs says that with notable exceptions, the implementation of FRA has been poor & includes recommendations for implementing it effectively. The Ministry of Environment and Forests and …
Shifting cultivation is an indigenous farming practice prevalent in forested highland communities of the Eastern Himalayas. Kanchenjunga Conservation Area (KCA) is a part of Eastern Himalayan landscape. KCA is a community managed area occupying 2,035 sq. km in Taplejung district in eastern Nepal. It is one of the biodiversity hotspots …
Aizawl, Aug 12: A total of 20.64 per cent of Mizoram has been identified as degraded land due to jhumming or slash and burn method of shifting cultivation, which was alarming, according to official findings.The findings stated that 28.18 per cent of the Mizoram
The Hill Area Development Program (HADP) has been introduced by the Government of India to initiate socio economic development in the hill areas of India since the inception of the Fifth Five Year Plan. The main objective of this program is to ensure sustainable development of hill areas, keeping in …
Agartala, June 28: Tripura Forest Minister Jitendra Chowdhury has expressed deep concern over degradation of forest land due to shifting cultivation (Jhum) over the years and revealed that Manipur has emerged as the worst-affected State, followed by Nagaland, Mizoram and Tripura. Addressing a National Seminar on the Great Depression of …
This paper considers the relationship between the historical emergence of colonial forestry institutions in forest areas of Andhra Pradesh and the chronic poverty of people living there. Between 5-15 million of Andhra
DIMAPUR, May 23: Governor of Nagaland Nikhil Kumar has called upon the Nagaland Forest Department to draw up a concerted plan for maintaining ecology and preserving the bio-diversity of the State. The Governor observed that the rich biodiversity and the unique ecology are put under real threat to the diminution …
Aizawl, May 6: The primitive slash and burn method of cultivation, or jhumming, in Mizoram has led to a massive destruction of forests and innumerable forest fires causing loss of human lives. The State Forest Department has attributed the disappearance of large tracts of forest every year to the jhum …
Aizawl: The primitive slash and burn method of cultivation or jhumming in Mizoram has led to massive destruction of forests and innumerable forest fires. The state forest department has attributed the disappearance of large tracts of forest every year to jhum fires that normally take place in this tiny state …
Hundreds of millions of indigenous women and men throughout the world manage their forests and crops sustainably, and in this way contribute to the sequestration of greenhouse gases. However, maintaining control over their land and forests in the face of colonial and corporate attempts to nationalise or privatise them has …
The traditional slash-and-burn cultivation in hilly areas of northeast India is known as jhum cultivation. It is often considered responsible for causing soil erosion, triggering landslide, flash floods and thereby degrading the primary land resource. The productivity is also reported to be very low. Further, it is also held responsible …
The Garo, Khasi and Jaintia Hills region, with its unique landscape, climatic phenomenon of heavy cloud cover and torrential rainfall, and agricultural richness involving the majority of the population, has been proposed as another National Agricultural Biodiversity Heritage Site based on six indices. The region is very rich in floristic …
In the northeast region of India, the societal water use is less than 5 per cent of the existing potential. This leads to vast devastation, poor crop yields, constrained livelihood options, malnutrition and drudgery. The region and the households witness `water poverty
Primitive tribal communities like the Chuktia Bhunjias living in Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Orissa continue to practise traditional agriculture using bio-cultural resources. Policymakers must learn from them in order to challenge the conventional model of agricultural production and food insecurity, as also about how to make development sustainable.
