Forest Conservation

India: unlocking opportunities for forest-dependent people - Volume I: main report

Forestry is the second largest land-use in India after agriculture, and an estimated 275 million people in rural areas depend on forests for at least part of their livelihoods. This study focusing mainly on community-based forestry outside protected areas, indicates that forests offer vast potential for poverty reduction and rural economic growth in India while also supporting critical national conservation goals. It debates the continued evolution of joint forest management in India by presenting research conducted within India and relevant examples from other regions.

Publication Date:

Dec 2005

Source: The World Bank

Tags:

Forest Management, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Community Forest Management (CFM), Forest Products, Forest-Based Industry, Benefit Sharing, India, Assam, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh

Water Resources

Trading deforestation

How China’s growing wood imports are affecting its neighbours

Publication Date:

30/10/2005

Author(s): Ruksan Bose

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Deforestation, Afforestation, Wood, Imports, China, Myanmar

India

In a sorry state

India s forests and the Forest Survey of India need a fresh lease of life, reveals new report

Publication Date:

30/08/2005

Author(s): Ruksan Bose

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Forest Resources, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Forest Research, Legislation, India

India

Cutting losses?

Compensatory afforestation in trouble

Publication Date:

14/08/2005

Author(s): Ruksan Bose

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Afforestation, Legislation, India

Forests

The right to live with dignity

An acrimonious exchange of words over the Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill, has appeared in the national press during the past couple of months.

Publication Date:

01/08/2005

Author(s): Pradip Prabhu

Source: Seminar

Vol:

0

Issue:

552

pp:

1

Tags:

Forests, Land Ownership, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Forest Act, Tribals, India

Forests

Just monetise it

An empirical measure of the value of forests

Publication Date:

30/07/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20050731

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment Economics, Forests, Forest Resources, Forest Conservation, Public Participation, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Ecosystem Services

India

Too cut & dried

Does the style of conserving forests currently dominant in India require an overhaul? Yes, say state governments and affected people. ruksan bose examines an alternative a notion and a practice slowly gaining ground in the

Publication Date:

30/07/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20050731

pp:

0

Tags:

Land Use, Himalaya, Western Ghats, Forest Resources, Forest Conservation, Timber Smuggling, Trade, Exports, Imports, Industry, Supreme Court, India, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Statistics

India

Forests grump

United Nations Forum on Forests fails to propose reforms

Publication Date:

14/07/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Forest Resources, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, India, Developing Countries

Industry

NON Functional

The fifth high-level ministerial meeting of the United Nation's Forum on Forests (UNFF-5), which ended in New York on May 27, 2005, failed to agree to a set of reforms to accelerate the ailing process of promoting conservation and sustainable development of forests. UNFF-5 couldn't agree on even a declaration.

Publication Date:

29/06/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20050630

pp:

0

Tags:

Forest Conservation, UN, Sustainable Development, New York

Forests