Forests

Forests & people first: the need for universal REDD+ safeguards

A number of REDD+ countries have begun to develop their own national safeguard standards, a development that – if carried out in a participatory, transparent manner and in compliance with international obligations – is to be strongly encouraged.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2012
Greenpeace International
Tags:
REDD, Forests, UNFCCC, Environment, Land Resources, Biodiversity, Governance, Land Tenure
People

State of the world’s minorities and indigenous peoples 2012: focus on land rights and natural resources

Minorities and indigenous peoples are under increasing threat from governments and private companies wanting to benefit from the resources found on or under their lands. Despite the growing recognition of their rights in international

Publication Date: 
01/06/2012
Minority Rights Group International
Tags:
Minorities, Tribals, India, Global, Land Resources, Environment, Human Rights, Women, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Mining, Oil, Natural Gas, Dams, Displacement
Agriculture

Cropland fertility in peril as brick kilns use topsoil

Several hundred acres of cultivable land in the district loses fertility every year as brick kilns are collecting huge quantities of earth from the topsoil of agricultural lands for making bricks.

Publication Date: 
23/05/2012
Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Bangladesh, South Asia, Agriculture, Soil Capability, Bricks, Land Resources
Energy

Jairam has no faith in jatropha biofuel

The Planning Commission hailed it as a future fuel and the industry projected it as a viable biofuel crop. But the Union Rural Development Ministry led by Jairam Ramesh feels otherwise.

Publication Date: 
18/05/2012
Pioneer (New Delhi)
Tags:
Biofuel, Ministry Of Rural Development, Jetropha, Renewable Energy, Energy, Biodiesel, TERI, Fossil Fuels, Planning Commission, Agriculture, Land Resources
Land

UN adopts guidelines on large land investments

Following three years of negotiations, members of the co-ordinating body for global food security efforts have agreed on a new set of voluntary guidelines aimed at bringing responsible governance to large-scale land acquisitions, which have become increasingly common as a result of the 2007-2008 food crisis. The Rome-based Committee on World Food Security (CFS) announced the new guidelines on 11 May.

Publication Date: 
16/05/2012
Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest
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Tags:
Land Resources, Land Acquisition, Food Security, Land Tenure, Fisheries, Forests, Conflicts, Human Rights, FAO
Natural Disasters

Majuli land mass increasing: Centre

NEW DELHI, May 7 – Contrary to reports about massive erosion of Majuli island, the Centre on Monday claimed that the total land mass of the river island has increased marginally.

Publication Date: 
08/05/2012
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
Tags:
Wetlands, Land Resources, Land, Assam, Brahmaputra, Soil Erosion, Remote Sensing, Natural Disasters, Floods
Energy

Parliament panel asks government to decide fast on bio-fuels programme

NEW DELHI: Rapping the rural development ministry's land resources department for the "inordinate delay" in finalising a bio-fuels programme, a parliamentary panel has sought for the matter be plac

Publication Date: 
07/05/2012
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Parliament, Biofuel, Renewable Energy, Energy, Land Resources, TERI, Ethanol, Biodiesel, Land
Water Resources

Bengal yet to submit report on watershed programme

NEW DELHI, 29 APRIL: The Union rural development ministry has claimed that the West Bengal government has “not submitted a single project” under the integrated watershed programme in the last three

Publication Date: 
30/04/2012
Statesman (Kolkata)
Tags:
Ministry Of Rural Development, Rural Development, Watershed Development, West Bengal, Water Resources, Land Resources, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Madhya Pradesh
Forests

Gram sabhas now hold key to projects in forest lands

New Delhi: Over two years after the environment and forests ministry ordered so, the statutory Forest Advisory Committee (FAC), which gives green nod to divert forests for projects, decided that it

Publication Date: 
27/04/2012
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forests, Gram Sabhas, Land Resources, India, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
Forests

Forest fire destroyed 200 hectares, claim officials

At least 141 incidents of forest fires have taken place in Uttarakhand since the beginning of March which has affected about 200 hectares of forest land.

Publication Date: 
26/04/2012
Pioneer (New Delhi)
Tags:
Survey of India, Forests, Forest Fires, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Environmentalists, Land Resources, Forest Conservation

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