Forest Resources

CS for replicating ICT system of MP to conserve forests

Chief Secretary, Madhav Lal today called for replicating ICT system of Madhya Pradesh in Jammu and Kashmir to manage and conserve forests in a systematic way.

Publication Date:

23/09/2011

Source: Daily Excelsior (Jammu)

Tags:

Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Forest Resources, Forests

Forests

Wealth of forests withheld

In partnership with forest departments, communities across India have raised forests worth millions of rupees in the hope of getting shares in timber revenue. Now that forests are ready for harvest, officials make excuses or give pittance. Read this Special report in Down To Earth.

Publication Date:

15/09/2011

Author(s): Sayantan Bera, Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava, Aparna Pallavi & et al

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

20

Issue:

8

Tags:

Andhra Pradesh, Benefit Sharing, Forest Conservation, Forest Policy, Forest Resources, Forest Rights Act 2006, Forests, Gujarat, India, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Minor Forest Produce, West Bengal

Forest tenure in Asia: status and trends

This report is intended to provide an overview of forest tenure in Asia between 2002 and 2010, building on and updating previous regional tenure studies undertaken by the Rights and Resources Initiative, and RRI and the International Tropical Timber Organization.

Publication Date:

01/09/2011

Author(s): Ganga Ram Dahal, Julian Atkinson, James Bampton

Source: RECOFTC - The Center for People and Forests

Tags:

Land Tenure, Asia, India, Land Reforms, Land Ownership, Forest Resources, Land Acquisition, Forests, Protected Area Conservation, Community Forest Management (CFM)

Forests

Forest department’s cheat act

Gadchiroli in Maharashtra may have acquired the model district status for clearing a record number of community forest rights (CFR) claims, but its 298 villages are angry with the forest department for stripping them of the basic right to manage forest produce.

Publication Date:

15/08/2011

Author(s): Aparna Pallavi

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

20

Issue:

6

Tags:

Community Forest Management (CFM), Forest Personnel, Forest Products, Forest Resources, Forest Rights Act 2006, Forests, Gadchiroli (D), Gram Sabhas, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Maharashtra, Mendha Lekha, Minor Forest Produce, Panchayats

Forests

Protection of forest resources (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011)

Protection of forest resources (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011).

Publication Date:

01/08/2011

Tags:

Forests, India, Parliament, Statistics, Forest Conservation, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Forest Resources

Forests

Somebody, save us from our benefactor

In 1964, the Madhya Pradesh government nationalised the tendu leaf used in bidi-making to stop exploitation of the tendu gathering tribals by private traders. Nearly five decades later, the tribals now get just Rs 65 for collecting, drying and packaging 1,000 leaves in a day, way less than the daily wage of even an unskilled labourer. It is the state that they need saving from!

Publication Date:

16/07/2011

Author(s): Sonal Matharu

Source: Governance Now

Vol:

2

Issue:

12

pp:

32-36

Tags:

Tendu, Madhya Pradesh, Minor Forest Produce, Tribals, Gram Sabhas, Forest Resources, Forest Policy

Forests

What rights? measuring the depth of indigenous peoples and community forest tenure

This brief presents some preliminary results of a legal analysis conducted by RRI to provide a fuller picture of Indigenous Peoples and community forest tenure rights globally. This analysis unpacks the collective rights to forestland and forest resources held by communities and codified in law.

Publication Date:

01/07/2011

Author(s): Jeffrey Hatcher, Fernanda Almeida

Source: Rights and Resources Initiative

Tags:

Forest Resources, Land Tenure, Tribals, India, Global, Community Forest Management (CFM), Forest Rights Act 2006, Forests

Forests

Andhra Pradesh state of forest report 2011

Forest Department of Andhra Pradesh has brought out this comprehensive State Forest Report 2011 depicting forest cover changes including
growth and drain between 2008 and 2009.

Publication Date:

01/07/2011

Source: Government of Andhra Pradesh

Tags:

Forests, Andhra Pradesh, Forest Resources, Community Forest Management (CFM), Protected Area Conservation, Remote Sensing, Trees

Forests

Subsidized timber and nonwood forest produce allotment policy - 2011

The Policy of the Royal Government of Bhutan to provide goods and services on subsidized rate to the Bhutanese people started even before the Department of Forest was established. During those periods the system was implemented by the Civil Authorities. The marking of timber/trees was done by the guards from the Civil Offices.

Publication Date:

01/07/2011

Source: Royal Government of Bhutan

Tags:

Forest Products, Minor Forest Produce, Forest Policy, Bhutan, Subsidies, Forest Resources, Rural Housing

Forests