Forests

Let our rightful forests flourish

The Forests Rights Act 2006 is a result of long sustained peoples

Publication Date: 
01/11/2008
Madhav Gadgil
National Centre for Advocacy Studies
Tags:
Forests, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Forest Resources, Forest Management, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Forest Act 1988, Forest Rights Act 2006, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Community Forest Management (CFM), Tribals, India
Forests

Sustainable forest management through community participation

Sustainability of forest management comes through community participation at all levels of intervention from planning, intervention and monitoring. There should be a bottom-up approach in microplanning, which requires mobilization of the community to participate in all forestry related interventions and also continuous monitoring.

Publication Date: 
25/10/2008
P. C. Kotwal, M. D. Omprakash, L. S. Kandari & et al
Current Science
95
8
1015
Tags:
Forests, Forest Management, Van Panchayats, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Forest Products, Minor Forest Produce, Public Participation, India
Forests

Socio-economic heterogeneity and distirbutional implications of Joint Forest Management (JFM)

In a developing country like India, the development of rural economy through effective and proper management of common property resources (CPRs) such as forests has increasingly become an integral part of sustainable development policy in the past couple of decades.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2008
Naresh Chandra Sahu
Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics
63
4
614
Tags:
Forests, Common Property Resources, Forest Resources, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Minor Forest Produce, Tribals, Landless, Unemployment, Orissa (Odisha), Angul (D), Kalahandi, Mayurbhanj, Rural Poverty
Forests

Maharashtra state forest policy 2008

The Maharashtra Forest Policy 2008 aims at raising forest cover in the state to a minimum of 33% (101.54 lakh hectares) of total land, as per the recommendations of the Planning Commission and the National Forest Policy, 1988. At present, the forest area in the state is around 20 per cent. Of this 56 per cent is in Vidarbha, five per cent in Marathwada and 39 per cent in western Maharashtra.

Publication Date: 
22/09/2008
Government of Maharashtra
Tags:
Ecotourism, Forest Management, Forest Policy, Forest Research, Afforestation, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Community Forest Management (CFM), Forest Products, Wood, Tribals, Wildlife, Biodiversity Conservation, Maharashtra
Forests

Villages join hands to combat land degradation

New legislation in India allows communities to take charge of degraded forest areas. One village claimed to have legal rights over a particular forest area. But users from neighbouring villages protested. An external NGO helped the communities to accept each other as legitimate forest users. Jointly, the villages are rehabilitating the area.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2008
Sanjay Joshie
LEISA
24
3
30
Tags:
Forests, Forest Conservation, Forest Villages, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Tribals, Benefit Sharing, India, Rajasthan
Forests

 Give us 18 sq km

Maharashtra village places demands under forest rights act Managing forest resources comes easy to people of Mendha Lekha. The people of this forest village in Maharashtra

Publication Date: 
30/08/2008
Supriya Singh
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Forest Rights Act 2006, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Minor Forest Produce, Tendu, Bamboo, Benefit Sharing, Gram Sabhas, Maharashtra, Gadchiroli (D)
Forests

Builders trample on tree-felling norm

Pune, August 1 Rs 3.19 crore deposit money collected for tree-felling lying unclaimed with PMC

Publication Date: 
02/08/2008
Indian Express (Mumbai)
Tags:
Forest Management, Deforestation, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Maharashtra, Pune (T)
Forests

Enclosing forests - towards protection of habitat: case studies from Rajasthan

This report analyses the approach of 'enclosing forests' implemented under the Project in Rajasthan which aimed at protecting and regenerating forests and securing long-term access of and benefits to local communities.

Publication Date: 
02/08/2008
Rucha Ghate, Deepshikha Mehra, Mukund Kulkarni
UNDP
Tags:
Forests, Forest Management, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Community Forest Management (CFM), NGO, Rajasthan, Udaipur (D)
Forests

Joint Forestry Management Training Centre inaugurated

Local Administration Minister M.K.Stalin inaugurated the Joint Forestry Management Training Centre at Velachery here on Friday. At another function, Mr. Stalin distributed Rs. 15.17 crore, which was earned by way of tank bund plantations by the Social Forestry wing of the State Forest Department. Sixty per cent from the total revenue earned through the tank bund plantations were provided to village panchayats. The amount was outstanding since 2000.

Publication Date: 
10/05/2008
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Forest Management, Joint Forest Management (JFM), State Forest Development Corporation, Tamil Nadu
Forests

No reliable data on forest department

The Centre has no reliable data on the impact of joint forest management (JFM) on the forest resources despite of the fact that JFM was introduced more than a decade back in the country and lakhs of hectare have been put under green cover through this community forest management scheme. Also, there is no concrete data available with the Centre on dam age to green cover by fire, pests or the extent of encroachment within the forest area. India has 1.8 per cent of world's forest cover.

Publication Date: 
23/04/2008
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forest Management, Afforestation, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)

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