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.

Although the Chipko movement is practically non-existent in its region of origin it remains one of the most frequently deployed examples of an environmental and/or a women's movement in the South. A small but growing number of commentators are now critiquing much neopopulist theorising on Chipko, and this paper provides an overview of these critiques. It then takes the debate further with reference to a more recent regional movement in the hills.

The Supreme Court has stated that a forest corporation is not entitled to tax exemptions as it was a local autho

When it comes to management of forests in the US, the timber industry and environmentalists have traditionally been at loggerheads. Whoever wins, the losers are generally the people from communities living near the forests. Urvashi Narain c> an

Local communities have always been stuck in no man s land in the US

In which the people of Quincy got their act together

Quincy remains an exception. The old story continues at the national level

From a wooded upland Jhabua became an example of extreme ecological degradation. The story of its recovery is remarkable

With the coming of the Rajiv Gandhi Mission on Watershed Development, a major change took place in the degraded wasteland that was Jhabua

Soil conservation work came cheap in Jhabua, but a lot remains to be done

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