Forest Villages

Tigers the cat's-paw in tribal eviction drive

V Gangadharan

With Keezhpunachi Moopan (village head) Arumugam moderating, villagers debate if they should accept the government's offer of a golden handshake.

Publication Date:

13/11/2009

Source: New Indian Express (Chennai)

Tags:

Forests, Forest Villages, Tribals, Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram (D)

Forests

The first JFM village of Madhya Pradesh revisited

Joint Forest Management in the village Barwani which comes under Timarni tehsil and Timarni development block. The village is a forest village under range Rehatgaon.

Publication Date:

01/10/2009

Author(s): Debashis Debnath

Source: IIFM Communique

Vol:

12

Issue:

4

pp:

4

Tags:

Forests, Agriculture, Rural Water Harvesting, Check Dam, Forest Conservation, Forest Villages, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Headloaders, Tribals, Women, Madhya Pradesh, Debashis Debnath, IIFM Communique

Forests

Malfunctioning of forest institutions in Orissa

This article analyses the working of Joint Forest Management and Community Forest Management in Orissa with a view to understand the incentive and disincentive mechanisms available in these institutions and how these influence the protection of forests and the livelihood of forest dwellers.

Publication Date:

12/09/2009

Author(s): Kailas Sarap, Tapas Kumar Sarangi

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

44

Issue:

37

pp:

18

Tags:

Forests, Forest Conservation, Forest Villages, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Minor Forest Produce, Women, Public Participation, Panchayats, Orissa (Odisha)

Forests

HC paves way for pattas to forest dwellers

CUTTACK: In a significant direction which will pave way for the State Government to issue `pattas

Publication Date:

13/08/2009

Source: New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)

Tags:

Forests, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Forest Villages, Forest Rights Act 2006, Tribals, High Court, Orissa (Odisha), Koraput (D)

Forests

Forest rights & implementation issues

Meena Menon
Maharashtra

Publication Date:

05/08/2009

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Forests, Forest Villages, Forest Rights Act 2006, Tribals, Maharashtra, Nandurbar (D)

Forests

Redressing historical injustice through the Indian Forest Rights Act 2006

This paper analyses historical origins of forest rights deprivation and contemporary processes through which local people are seeking to restore their forest rights, taking the case of the Indian Forest Rights Act 2006 as an example to illustrate wider issues in historical institutional theory.

Publication Date:

01/08/2009

Author(s): Madhu Sarin, & et al, Oliver Springate-Baginski, Soumitra Ghosh

Source: Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth

Tags:

Forests, Land Ownership, Land Tenure, Forest Villages, Forest Act, Forest Rights Act 2006, Minor Forest Produce, Tribals, Wildlife, India

Forests

Forest Dept officials seek protection

Subhash Chandra NS,DH News Service,Bangalore:

The Forest Department, which is on an encroachment clearance spree in Bangalore Rural district, has been now forced to seek police assistance to achieve its objectives, following a threat from land sharks.

Publication Date:

27/07/2009

Source: Deccan Herald (Bangalore)

Tags:

Forest Encroachments, Forest Personnel, Forest Villages, Karnataka

Forests

Khatpura revisited: A JFM review

Once in the year 1998, in search of a village on the way to Panchmarhi for conducting the exposure visit for the international participants of an international training programme the village Khatpura was discovered by three IIFM Faculty. The village became a remarkable successful JFM village in Sehore Forest Division.

Publication Date:

01/07/2009

Author(s): D. Debnath

Source: IIF Communique

Vol:

0

Issue:

0

pp:

1

Tags:

Forests, Forest Conservation, Forest Villages, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Public Participation, Sehore (D), D. Debnath, IIF Communique

Forests

Forest officials evict 8 huts

Forest Officials evicted about 8 huts out of 22 huts put up by the tribals on forest land near Ashram School at C B Halli near Siddhapura, on Thursday.

The eviction drive was taken up with police security. As the drive took off, the officials saw intense retaliation from tirbals. However 8 huts were pulled down with the police security.

Publication Date:

19/06/2009

Source: Deccan Herald (Bangalore)

Tags:

Forests, Forest Encroachments, Forest Villages, Tribals, Karnataka

Forests