Land

 Where’s Bhoodan land?

Gifting of land, or bhoodan in Hindi, is the current obsession of the government. It is on a spree of acquiring land. This is often termed as bhoodan to corporate houses. There is another kind of bhoodan that is being talked about. For a country that is demographically young, this bhoodan took place as a movement when India was just four years old.

Publication Date: 
31/10/2011
Richard Mahapatra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Resources, Land Acquisition, Land Reforms, India, Urban Development, Andhra Pradesh, Urban Housing, Legislation
Agriculture

Looking ahead in world food and agriculture: perspectives to 2050

fuelled by the turbulence of world agricultural markets, the debate on relations among agriculture, food security, natural resources, population growth and economic development has been revamped over the last few years.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2011
Piero Conforti
FAO
Tags:
Agriculture, Food Security, Developing Countries, Biofuel, Nutrition, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Poverty, Environment, Agricultural Research, Economic Development, Water Resources, Land Resources
Forests

Official makes free with MP forest lands

The Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) continues to look the other way as prime forest land in Madhya Pradesh is denuded for various non-forestry purposes, in direct contravention of the

Publication Date: 
21/09/2011
Pioneer (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forests, Forest Conservation, Land Resources, Bhopal (D), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
Forests

Forest Land Norms for Projects Relaxed

In a reprieve for industry, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan has relaxed environmental clearance norms for projects requiring forest land.

Publication Date: 
13/09/2011
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forests, Land Resources, India, Supreme Court, Lafarge India, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
Land

Economics of land degradation: the costs of action versus inaction

In recent years, prices of agricultural land have increased quickly, actually doubling and tripling in many parts of the world. This land value reassessment has been prompted by rising crop prices and perceived land scarcity. But even as the value of land rises, land degradation continues and investments to prevent it are lagging.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2011
Ephraim Nkonya, Nicolas Gerber, Joachim von Braun, & et al
International Food Policy Research Institute
Tags:
Land Degradation, India, Global, Land Use, Land Resources, Food Security
Environment

Environmental master plan of Alwar district

The Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India vide its Gazette Notification No. S.O.

Publication Date: 
26/08/2011
Government of Rajasthan
Tags:
Environment, Alwar (D), Rajasthan, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Water Resources, Forests, Land Resources, Air Pollution, Biodiversity, Mining, Industry
Land

Comparative evaluation of land acquisition and compensation processes across the world

One of the key challenges in the development of infrastructure in India is the acquisition of land necessary for the projects. Land acquisition techniques adopted across a variety of other countries are reviewed in this paper. Although no single “best practice” exists, viewing land acquisition practices through a framework of principles, processes, and compensation mechanisms allows us to position the Indian experience within the international context.

Publication Date: 
06/08/2011
Ashwin Mahalingam, Aditi Vyas
Economic and Political Weekly
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32
94-102
Tags:
Land Acquisition, India, Infrastructure Development, Compensation, Land Resources, Global, Land Act 1894, Legislation, World Bank, Tamil Nadu, Urban Roads, Special Economic Zones (SEZ), Indore (D), Chennai (D), Public Transport

Transforming landscapes, transforming lives: the business of sustainable water buffer management

This report is about sustainable land management, the development of water buffers and the business case underneath it. It is part of the discussion on the green economy: investment in natural resource management makes business sense. This also applies for investment in land, water and vegetative cover.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2011
Frank van Steenbergen, Albert Tuinhof, Lenneke Knoop
3R Water Secretariat
Tags:
Water Management, Water Resources, Land Resources, India, Global, Water Conservation, Sedimentation, Dams, Groundwater, Maharashtra, Check Dam, Grasslands, Tubewells
Land

Salinity affects over 62pc of coastal land: survey

About 10.56 lakh out of 16.89 lakh hectares of coastal land in the country are affected by salinity of various degrees, according to a survey of the Soil Resources Development Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture.

The findings of the survey in 2010 on saline soil of Bangladesh said that more than 62 per cent out of the total cultivated land in the coastal areas had already been affected by

Publication Date: 
11/07/2011
New Age (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Bangladesh, Salinity, Land Resources, Agriculture, Soil Salinisation, Fisheries, Water Quality, FAO
Environment

Kailash sacred landscape conservation initiative: feasibility assessment report

The Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation Initiative (KSLCI) aims to initiate and promote transboundary biodiversity and cultural conservation, ecosystem management, sustainable development, and climate change adaptation within the Kailash Sacred Landscape (KSL).

Publication Date: 
01/07/2011
Krishna Prasad Oli, Robert Zomer
ICIMOD
Tags:
Environment, India, Nepal, China, Land Use, Land Resources, Wildlife, Ecosystems, Climate Change, Water Resources, Biodiversity

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