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Critical Review of Selected Forest-Related Regulatory Initiatives

Applying a Rights Perspective

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Asia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, India
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
forest law
forestry
community forestry
deforestation
forest conservation
state forests
indigenous peoples' lands
forest land
forest management plans
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
This report brings together four studies that evaluate regulatory initiatives with implications for forest-dependent communities from a rights-based perspective. These are: The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 – India; Regulatory initiatives and selected outcomes of judicial processes in Malaysia; The Community Forest Act (2007) – Thailand; and The Indigenous People’s Rights Act (1997) – Philippines. Each study covers law making, content and implementation.
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Bargaining and Gender Relations: Within and Beyond the Household

January, 1997
India
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
women
mining
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Gender and Land Rights Revisited: Exploring New Prospectus via the State, Family and Market

January, 2003
India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land & Food Security
women
land rights
mining
land
women
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Gender, Property Rights and Responsibility for Farming in Kerala

January, 2004
India
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
women
property rights
land reform
property
agriculture
occupation
women
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Gender Asset and Wealth Gaps Evidence from Karnataka

January, 2012
India
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
women
mining
women
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GOVERNANCE OF FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION: ANALYSES OF GOVERNANCE ISSUES IN CASES FROM GHANA AND INDIA

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
December, 2021
Africa, Ghana, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, India
Forest Landscape Restoration
land administration
land governance
land restoration
This report highlights important differences in political, legal, and institutional environments, and the need to recognise opportunities and limitations in the local context when restoring land.
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Farmers' protests in India and agricultural reforms

Reports & Research
December, 2021
India
Land Conflicts
agricultural and rural legislation
farming systems
agriculture
conflicts
land dispute
contract farming
farmers
Abstracted from executive summary:

The Indian Central Government introduced three agricultural reform bills in June 2020. These Bills, known collectively as the farm laws, were passed by the Indian Parliament at the end of September. Opposition figures and protesting farmers complained there was little consultation over the legislation. On 19 November 2021, after nearly a year of mass protests against the laws, the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, made a surprise announcement that his Government would repeal the farm laws.
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EnviStats India 2021

Vol. 1: Environment Statistics

Reports & Research
March, 2021
India
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land cover
forest land
land use
agriculture
land use change
biodiversity
open data
Environment statistics enumerate various aspects of the environment and human interactions with it. The scope of environment statistics encompasses all dimensions of the environment, be it Earth, Water or Air, the biotic and abiotiv matter found within the natural environment, and various concerns arising out of impacts of human footprints on it. The objective of environment statistics is to provide information about the environment, its changes over time and across locations, and the main factors that influence them.
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Forest-Based Bamboo Trade in Mendha Lekha and Jamguda

Reports & Research
October, 2015
India
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
sustainable development
forest law
forestry
community forestry
forest conservation
forest land
forest management plans
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
community land rights
This paper presents case studies of two tribal villages - Mendha Lekha and Jamguda - successfully running forest-based bamboo businesses under the community forest rights provisions of Forest Rights Act (2006). We have documented the issues faced by the villagers in claiming community forest rights, issues faced in harvesting and sale of bamboo, and business practices adopted by both the villages.
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Can group farms outperform individual family farms? Empirical insights from India

Journal Articles & Books
August, 2018
Southern Asia, India
agriculture
leases
group tenure arrangements
smallholders
women
Is there an alternative model to small family farming that could provide sustainable livelihoods to millions of resource-constrained and often non-viable smallholders in developing countries? Could group farming constitute such an alternative, wherein smallholders voluntarily pool land, labour and capital to create larger farms that they manage collectively?