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 …
Forest governance is identified as critical to the success of REDD+. Implementation of robust REDD+ strategy is possible through Community Based Forest Governance. Historically, forest governance in India established towards the middle of the 19th century was mainly engaged in exploration, demarcation, reservation, and exploitation of forests for timber. Globally, …
The ecosystem services derived from conservation areas have a high value for human well being, but they do not receive due consideration in public policy in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. As a result, conservation areas do not receive adequate public support for participatory management and other approaches. The lack …
Iron ore miners are contesting the levy of a forest development tax by the forest department in Karnataka, but the levy has been incredibly beneficial for the exchequer’s coffers. Selling Karnataka’s forest produce like grass, amla, bark, lac, honey, silk cocoons and bamboo to industries attracts a 12 per cent …
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said solution to internal security threat does not lie merely in weeding out Naxals in security operations. Ramesh had called a group of Gandhians and activists working in Naxal-affected areas here to take home an 11-point charter of measures for implementation. The …
Agartala, 19 Sept: The Rubber Board has begun trial cultivation of rubber with tea in West Bengal to change the perception that rubber is harmful to environment and other crops cannot be grown in rubber gardens. And if the experiment turns successful, inter-cropping would be extended to other parts of …
DIMAPUR: Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has said that a State like Nagaland which is rich in natural grown bamboo needs a policy or programme suitable for growth of bamboo industry to boost the State’s economy. Addressing a day-long programme to commemorate World Bamboo Day here at Nagaland Bamboo Resource …
DIMAPUR, Sept 16 – World Bamboo Day will be observed by Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency (NBDA) here on September 18. This year’s theme is “Green Future 2012” and the objective is to promote bamboo as a resourceful medium in the global race for a greener future with the objective of …
Agartala, Sept. 5: Every 48 years or so, the Northeast bears witness to a bizarre natural phenomenon. At this time, a particular species of bamboo flowers, all at once, across a wide area. This mass flowering is invariably followed by a famine, caused by rats, which multiply on the abundance …
New Delhi Hit by an acute shortage of land for growing eucalyptus, the paper industry is now banking on agro-forestry to meet the rising demand of wood pulp. Started by paper major ITC, more than 1,500 acres of land is covered under the agro-forestry plan in areas such as Khammam, …
Agricultural expansion and deforestation contribute to approximately 17% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. The fate of cleared wood and subsequent carbon storage as wood products, however, has not been consistently estimated. Now research fills this gap and shows that 30 years after forest clearance the percentage of carbon stored in wood …
Facts and Trends: Forests, forest products, carbon & energy is a new report developed by the WBCSD Forest Solutions Group and NCASI. The report is highlighting the key role forests and forest products play in furthering sustainable solutions in a resource constrained world. It also underlines their necessity for a …
This tenth edition of the State of the World's Forests by FAO, says that forests have a major role to play in the transition to a new, greener economy and governments must ensure effective programmes and policies for sustainable forest management. As the global community looks for ways to move …
The forestry sector’s contribution to poverty alleviation in Asia and the Pacific is of great importance owing to the high prevalence of poverty in forested areas. Obstacles to reducing poverty through forestry are many. Forests are often far from markets and poor people frequently lack marketing knowledge, financial capital and/or …
Itanagar: The National Bamboo Mission (NBM) has assured to provide fund to the Arunachal Pradesh Bamboo Resource and Development Agency (APBRDA) to boost the bamboo plantation of the State. NBM deputy director general Kameshwar Ojha made this assurance when APBRDA vice chairman Yora Tagung called on him at New Delhi …
Gram sabha’s total control over forest produce makes ultras unhappy, reveal reports The government’s plan for economic empowerment of tribals to combat Left-wing extremism is yet to take off, despite the positive experience in Mendha Lekha in the Naxal affected Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. Notwithstanding legal guarantees, many village assemblies …
Amid reports that Maoists are against according bamboo rights to Adivasis in Gadchiroli, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has asked the Chief Ministers of six Naxal-hit States to emulate the success of Mendha Lekha village in that Maharashtra district. Mendha Lekha became the first village with Community Forest Rights …
Say It Is Not A ‘Grass’ But A ‘Tree’, Can’t Be Harvested. UPA’s initiative to give tribals control over the Rs 20,000 crore forest economy is again under threat, with the Union environment and forests ministry saying it will continue to treat bamboo as a tree and not “grass”. The …
Bhubaneswar: Expressing concern over huge fly ash generation, utilisation and disposal, chairman of the Department related Standing Committee MLA Prafulla Mallick today directed the Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) to prepare Action Plan within three months. The Committee has recommended the OSPCB officials to prepare action plans for individual …
NEW DELHI, 6 AUG: A special commission will soon be set up to fix a minimum support price for forest produce sold by tribals to earn their livelihoods, the Centre announced today. The Commission will be put in place by January next year and a Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation …
A special commission will soon be set up to fix the minimum support price (MSP) for forest produces used by tribals to earn their livelihoods, the Government said here on Monday. The Commission will be put in place by January next year and Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation (TRIFED) will …
