The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
This report, two years in the making, provides a comprehensive assessment of progress being made towards SFM in each ITTO producer member country and the identifies the challenges remaining. Key findings include that the area deemed to be under sustainable management has grown by 50% over the past 5 years …
On the eve of the World Biodiversity Day, which will be observed on Sunday, city-based environmentalists and activists raised their concerns about Pune
New Delhi: The move to provide minimum support price for forest produce to tribals has picked up momentum with the Planning Commission now considering how to go about it. The panchayati raj ministry had earlier set up a committee under T Haque to suggest how the Rs 50,000 crore forest …
MUMBAI: Union minister Jairam Ramesh's order notwithstanding, the state forest department is unwilling to transfer the rights over harvesting bamboos to forest dwellers. The department currently holds the right to harvest bamboo in the state. Its contention is that allowing villagers to cut bamboo will affect the sustainability of the …
The ministry of environment and forests, for the first time has chalked out comprehensive effluent standard norms for the rubber industry across all product categories. According to official sources this measure will check the pollution problem arising from rubber parks coming up in the country. While one was situated only …
- National Bamboo Mission takes a back seat, thanks to transit permit on harvest Ranchi, May 3: Teeming bamboo groves could well swing towards state farmers, but it is the forest department that holds sway over the cash crop. Since the launch of the National Bamboo Mission in Jharkhand in …
The Integrated Land and Ecosystem Management Project is being implemented by the Forest Department in Madhya Pradesh with the cooperation of Global Environmental Facility. The project is being implemented in nine forest divisions of Betul, Chhindwara, Umaria, Sidhi and Singrauli districts. The five-year project will be implemented till the year …
Mendha-Lekha, a remote village in the Maoist-affected Gadchiroli district of eastern Maharashtra, has become the first in the country where tribals have been given the right to sell bamboo harvested from the surrounding forests, an official said. The villagers, numbering around 3,000, attended the function Wednesday when village head Devaji …
After a long battle with the Forest Department, this village in a remote, Naxal-affected part of the state on Thursday became the first village in the country to become eligible to own, cut, use and sell bamboo
Union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh, along with Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, on Wednesday launched a programme giving tribals right to harvest bamboo as a forest produce in a tribal village here. Ramesh and Chavan handed over transit passes to tribals of Lekha Mendha village thus according them …
Mendha Lekha village in Naxal-infested Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra will become the first in the country to get the right to harvest and sell bamboo after 150 years. The right to harvest and sell bamboo was taken away by the British government over 150 years ago under the Indian Forest …
Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh, who is all set to flag off harvesting of bamboo by villagers under the new Forest Rights Act, is facing severe embarrassment from the Maharashtra government which has threatened to arrest those who do so. Ramesh is all set to kick off …
New Delhi: The forest bureaucracy has taken on environment minister Jairam Ramesh and Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan to defend its turf. Despite the two planning to attend the first ever sale of bamboo by a village in India on April 27 in Mendha-Lekha of Gadchiroli under the Forest Rights …
The Environment Ministry is moving ahead with its efforts to ensure a minimum support price for minor forest produce such as bamboo and tendu leaves. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has reiterated his ministry
BHUBANESWAR: The Assembly amended the Orissa Forest Act, 1972, and raised the offence compounding ceiling to Rs 5,000, up from Rs 100. The Act empowered forest officers to compound certain offences and stipulated that no offence shall be compounded if the market value of the forest produce involved exceeded Rs …
MUMBAI: Alphonso, the king of mangoes, has fallen victim to climate change. The state government's preliminary estimate is that nearly 80% of the mango crop has been destroyed, said agriculture minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil. "The trees flowered far in excess of everyone's expectations . The devastation has taken us by surprise. …
The impending ease of restrictions on bamboo will be a dream come true for crores of people belonging to forest dwelling communities, artisans and crasftsmen in the country for whom it is a traditional source of subsistence. Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh communicated a set of guidelines to …
The Planning Commission is pushing for fixing of a minimum support price (MSP) for forest products, including bamboo, as an effective anti-naxal strategy, hoping that increased income levels would address at least part of the disenchantment prevalent among the tribal communities. As of now, the central government has fixed MSPs …