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 …
Community forestry has been identified as the only viable forest management strategy in many developing countries. To this effect, both India and Nepal have launched programmes. But while in Nepal forests are on the road to recovery, severe limitations come in the way of managing forests successfully in India. Some …
INDIA: A colonial system of forest management left behind by the British NEPAL: Forest regulation and management is hardly 50 years old. INDIA: Ninety-five per cent of forests is owned and managed by state forest departments NEPAL: There is a clear demarcation between various types of forests INDIA: Forestry is …
What is the greatest benefit you have derived from community forest management? There is a centuries-old monastery near our village. It was robbed of its sanctity after the forest around it was denuded. Once the community regenerated the forest, the spiritual splendour that is associated with a religious place was …
For 30 years, 60-year-old Gyan Bahadur Karki, along with his fellow villagers, has been protecting a 24-hectare (ha) patch of forest in the vicinity of his village Kahnu, near Pokhra. He has been sourcing his fodder and fuelwood needs from the forests since then. "But there is a big difference …
scientists have expressed concern over the gradual disappearance of several important north Indian tree species such as sal , sheesham and khair, due to various reasons. The causes and remedial steps to save large forests of sal, sheesham and khair have been discussed at several workshops and seminars held at …
A ban on the use of forest wood had forced Tata Steel, based in Jamshedpur, Madhya Pradesh to look for an alternative to replace wooden dunnages (mats) used as separators between stacks of sheet/ plate packets during shipment. The company has come out with an alternative using the eco-friendly coir …
madhya Pradesh has set a record by being the first state in the world to implement the new concept of People Protected Area (ppa). Introduced under the United Nations Development Programme (undp), the measure allows for sustainable and effective use of non-wood forest products (nwfp). A 32,000 hectare area land …
a proposal by the us to slash tariffs on paper, wooden furniture and other forest products worldwide will have little impact on the global timber harvest or the environment, a White House study said. However, an analysis of the report by the office of the us Trade Representative and the …
it is an attempt to achieve environmentally-friendly logging. Mil Madeireira, a Brazil-based forestry company, has evolved a way to cut trees in such a way that when a tree is cut, it falls in an area where few other trees would be affected. The company's logging method has been acknowledged …
Five condom vending machines were set up at different locations in New Delhi. The machines were installed at Laxmi Nagar, Preet Vihar, ITO, Sadanand Marg and Palika Bazar. The Union ministry of environment and forests is working on a new set of regulatory norms to prohibit the establishment of industries …
Forest issues often concern large amounts of money, long time frames, huge areas of land and diverse livelihoods. This report draws the main findings from a series of six country studies from Costa Rica, Ghana, India, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea and Zimbabwe and from a review of international policy initiatives. …
Following the Supreme Court interim ban on transportation of forest produce from the north-east, Assam has lost around Rs 78 crore and Arunachal Pradesh, Rs 85 crore. For Assam, the revenue in territorial forest alone has come down from Rs 161,772,000 in 1995-96 to Rs 118,211,000 in 1996-97. In their …
the recent ruling by the Supreme Court (sc), based on the assessment of timber and forest produce and forest mining in the northeastern states, has left the timber and affiliated industries in the region in a limbo. The impor-tance of preserving the forest wealth of the states seems to have …
IN A bid to save the last vestiges of Scandinavia's ancient forests, some of Britain's largest paper and timber consumers agreed in December last to exert pressure on Scandinavian timber suppliers. Environmental activists reached a consensus with several companies, including Sainsbury's and the BBC Magazines chain, on adoption of methods …
MENDHA. A small adivasi village tucked away in the interior of Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district. In this nondescript village, the residents have raised the revolutionary banner of Mava nate mava raj (Our rule in our villages) - with the help of some outside 'friends- and waged a war with the authorities …
On May 28,1995, 3 jeeps full of uniformed officers and forest guards along with a truck and a tractor arrived in Haliasahi, a remote Adivasi hamlet in Kashipur block, Rayagada district, Orissa, and seized the entire stock of hillbrooms belonging to the local Mandibisi Mahila Mandal (MMM). Hillbrooms are a …
THE oft repeated story of exploitation has raised its ugly head again, this time in Orissa's Kalahandi district. Women of the mainly tribal population in the panchayats of Thuamul Rampur, Kaniguma and Nakrundi, who collect phoo1jitadu (broomsticks) - a minor forest produce - from the jungle, are forced to sell …
The Brazilian government has come down heavily on the Kayapo Indians, an Amazonian tribe. The Kayapoes are "mining" mahogany from the reserve forests in northern Brazil and wreaking havoc on the pristine forest cover, allege the authorities; therefore, they must be stopped immediately. Now, a court in Brasilia has banned …
