Forests

70% afforestation projects taken up in forests, gram sabha consent ignored: Study

NEW DELHI: A new study on more than 2000 compensatory afforestation plantations across the country found that in 70% of the projects plantations have been taken up on notified forest land but terme

Publication Date: 
19/03/2018
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Compensatory Afforestation, Gram Sabhas, Trees, Chhattisgarh, Tribals, Forest Act 1980, Forests
Agriculture

Long march for livelihood

The BJP needs to think beyond farm loan waivers to address intensifying rural unrest. (Editorial)

Publication Date: 
17/03/2018
Economic and Political Weekly
53
11
8
Tags:
Farmers, Agriculture, Maharashtra, Political Parties, Subsidies, Rural Poverty, Debt, Landless, Tribals, Forest Rights Act 2006
Land

The legal regime and political economy of land rights of Scheduled Tribes in the Scheduled Areas of India

India was a pioneer in recognising special protections for her tribal or indigenous peoples in the Constitution, recognising their distinctive cultural, social, and economic identity from that of the mainstream Indian society and that they needed some protection from exploitation by the mainstream.

Publication Date: 
12/03/2018
Namita Wahi, Ankit Bhatia
Centre for Policy Research
Tags:
Land Ownership, Land Acquisition, Tribals, India, Legislation, Forest Rights Act 2006, Rehabilitation
Forests

Brazilian ‘quilombo’ community entitled with 220,000 hectares of rainforest

Longtime residents of one of the country’s thousands of Quilombo communities have been given land titles for the first time.

Publication Date: 
08/03/2018
Mongabay
Tags:
Forests, Brazil, Amazon, Tribals, Land, South America
Forests

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding land claims under Forest Rights Act 2006, India, 07/03/2018

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Wildlife Trust of India & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 07/03/2018 regarding land claims under the provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 hurting forest and wildlife interests.

Supreme Court directs all the State Governments to file an affidavit indicating :-

Judgement Date: 
07/03/2018
Tags:
Forest Rights Act 2006, Tribals, Forest Encroachments, Supreme Court, Wildlife, India
Health

'Provincialising' vegetarianism - Putting Indian food habits in their place

Large-scale survey data are used to question the most public claims about food habits in India. It is found that the extent of overall vegetarianism is much less—and the extent of overall beef-eating much more—than suggested by common claims and stereotypes. The generalised characterisations of “India” are deepened by showing the immense variation of food habits across scale, space, group, class, and gender.

Publication Date: 
03/03/2018
Balmurli Natrajan, Suraj Jacob
Economic and Political Weekly
53
9
Tags:
Consumption Patterns, India, Nutrition, Animal Products, Statistics, Scheduled Castes, Tribals, People
Environment

In Kerala, village on path to become country’s first carbon-neutral panchayat

Meenangadi, nestled in the undulating hills of the Western Ghats is looking to become ‘carbon neutral’ — a state of zero carbon footprint achieved when carbon emissions in the atmosphere are cancel

Publication Date: 
28/02/2018
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Kerala, Wayanad, Tribals, Waste Management, Ecosystems, Crops, Biodiversity, Western Ghats, Panchayats, LEDs
Forests

Gram sabha definition in draft CAF rules could deprive some forest dwellers of consultation: MoTA

The ministry of tribal affairs (MoTA) has raised a number of concerns with the draft rules for implementation of the compensatory afforestation fund (CAF) Act, notified by the union environment min

Publication Date: 
27/02/2018
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Compensatory Afforestation, Gram Sabhas, Tribals, Forest Conservation, Wildlife, Forests
Forests

Jharkhand government will market state's minor forest produce: CM Raghubar Das

RANCHI: Chief minister Raghubar Das on Sunday pledged to offer a helping hand to Jharkhand's minor forest producers by selling a bulk of their yearly produce through the newly constituted Mukhayama

Publication Date: 
05/02/2018
Times Of India (Ranchi)
Tags:
Jharkhand, Minor Forest Produce, Tribals, Farmers, Forests
Land

The legal face of corporate land grab in Chhattisgarh

In the entire mineral rich region of Orissa, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, where even non-Naxal areas (Posco, Kathikund, Kalinganagar, Narayanpatna, Potka) are seeing brutal police repression, mining seems to be the motivating factor for a ground clearing of the adivasis – if necessary by war, as in Dantewada.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2018
Sudha Bharadwaj
Janhit Peoples’ Legal Resource Centre
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Chhattisgarh, Tribals, Industry, Displacement

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