Forest Resources

First food: business of taste

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. …

A tale of two interpretations

The fresh cool forest breeze and the greenery appears to act as a magic wand on the residents of village Ghati. Middle-aged men and women who just a few minutes ago had been involved in hard-core legal talk suddenly speak like children. Forty-something Gyaneshwar Sahare, who had been pouring forth …

Forest department’s cheat act

Gadchiroli in Maharashtra may have acquired the model district status for clearing a record number of community forest rights (CFR) claims, but its 298 villages are angry with the forest department for stripping them of the basic right to manage forest produce. http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/forest-department-s-cheat-act

Forest department’s cheat act

GADCHIROLI in Maharashtra may have acquired the model district status for clearing a record number of community forest rights (CFR) claims, but its 298 villages are angry with the forest department for stripping them of the basic right to manage forest produce. The department has also burdened them with conditions, …

Taungyas get legal recognition

LIVING a legally non-existent life for more than six decades, the Taungya forest-dwellers in Gorakhpur and Maharajganj districts of Uttar Pradesh finally got their share of rights on forestland. On July 25, state forest minister Fateh Bahadur Singh distributed land titles to 651 Taungya families in six villages of the …

Somebody, save us from our benefactor

In 1964, the Madhya Pradesh government nationalised the tendu leaf used in bidi-making to stop exploitation of the tendu gathering tribals by private traders. Nearly five decades later, the tribals now get just Rs 65 for collecting, drying and packaging 1,000 leaves in a day, way less than the daily …

What rights? measuring the depth of indigenous peoples and community forest tenure

This brief presents some preliminary results of a legal analysis conducted by RRI to provide a fuller picture of Indigenous Peoples and community forest tenure rights globally. This analysis unpacks the collective rights to forestland and forest resources held by communities and codified in law. RRI has developed a database …

Andhra Pradesh state of forest report 2011

Forests are renewable natural resource and its availability in a region indicates its prosperity. In Andhra Pradesh the natural forests are confined to remote areas and in other zones the forests are depleting day by day. The planning process and enforcement have to be done in a well coordinated manner …

Subsidized timber and nonwood forest produce allotment policy - 2011

The Policy of the Royal Government of Bhutan to provide goods and services on subsidized rate to the Bhutanese people started even before the Department of Forest was established. During those periods the system was implemented by the Civil Authorities. The marking of timber/trees was done by the guards from …

Govt contradicts itself over forest coverage

The finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith in April admitted that the forest coverage was nine per cent of the country

Sustainable livelihoods strategy 2011

The Sustainable Livelihoods Strategy -2011 was developed by WWF Nepal based on learnings from the ground with partners and civil society. The strategy document aims at enhancing the understanding of the linkage between conservation and livelihoods in the local context and the rationale behind mainstreaming livelihoods and social issues in …

Criticality of commons - Role of forest as food resource

It is important to understand the strong linkage that exists between food security, forest and resource conservation. Studies conducted over a decade in India clearly point to the fact that a majority of people in this country survive within a biomass based subsistence economy.

Reforming forest tenure: issues, principles and process

The FAO has released a report titled "Reforming Forest Tenure: Issues, Principles and Process," which reviews current status and challenges related to tenure of forested lands, and lists ten principles for reform. The report highlights the role of forest tenure reform in achieving sustainable forest management and improved livelihoods, noting …

Tribal movements and livelihoods: recent developments in Orissa

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. …

Disowned 100,000

Taungyas have lived in Uttar Pradesh for decades but law does not recognise them. They have hope from the Forest rights Act 2006 in getting legal identity, as it recognises the traditional rights of scheduled tribes and other forest-dwellers on forest land and resources. Taungyas have lived in Uttar Pradesh …

Bamboo freed

Following the historic forest rights victory on April 27, mood in Mendha Lekha is upbeat. Gram sabha of this village in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district started felling about 90,000 bamboos a day after winning the right to harvest and sell the minor forest produce (MFP). With transit passes in hand, the …

Disowned 100,000

McDonald saheb, Qureshi saheb, Jivan Singh, Aadal Singh, Udham Singh …. Eighty-yearold Lakshmi Nishad rattles off all the names she remembers of the forest officers who have served in the Gorakhpur range. The display of memory is a desperate attempt to prove that she has lived all her life in …

Govt to lift tree-felling ban

The government is planning to lift the 11-month-long ban on commercial tree felling and selling of forest products from Monday. In the wake of massive deforestation reported in the country in the year 2009 and 2010, the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation had imposed a ban on May 21 …

Value of Sri Lanka's forest bio-diversity to be added to national revenue

The Environment Ministry of Sri Lanka has said the value of the country's forest bio-diversity estimated at 4.5 trillion rupees would be included into the national revenue in future. The Ministry has stated that the carbon stabilization process by forests in Sri Lanka, which is estimated at over 1.582 trillion …

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