In recent years, there has been growing attention and effort towards securing the formal, legal recognition of land rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

Wetlands are “places where water is the primary factor controlling plant and animal life and the wider environment” and provide a variety of important ecosystem functions such as recharging groundwater supplies and trapping floodwaters in addition to facilitating nutrient cycling and the production of rice and fish as staple food for more than h

The weekly digest of important reports, research, policy documents, regulations, studies, court cases, protests, conflicts, initiatives, photos, data, statistics, infographics, presentations on the India Environment Portal, 01 - 08 May 2015.

The VOLANTE Roadmap for Future Land Resources Management in Europe is a tool for policymakers and practitioners alike. It features three visions of future land use, created in a participatory process by a set of stakeholders from all across Europe.

Feeding the world’s growing population and finding the land and water to grow enough food continues to be a basic and sizeable challenge. It is an enormous task because the increase in food production required to meet future needs may have to be achieved with fewer land and water resources.

The governments of People’s Republic of Bangladesh have been published report on the Environment and Climate Change Outlook 2012 which is a collection of the present position of the country’s environmental condition.