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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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Interstitial Space and the High Himalayan Dispute between China and India

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2021
China, India, Pakistan
Land Conflicts
boundaries
territory
conflicts
land conflicts
land dispute
land dispute resolution
A border dispute between Indian and Chinese troops, the most dangerous in 45 years, has roiled relations in the High Himalayan valleys and plateaus separating India (Ladakh) and China (Aksia Chin). Against this barren landscape, ancient pathways connecting Central, South, and East Asia converge, making the area today a key nodal point of commercial and strategic interest to three nuclear powers, India, China, and Pakistan.
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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?
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How Many and Which Women Own Land in India? Inter-gender and Intra-gender Gaps

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2021
India
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
agricultural and rural legislation
land inheritance rights
right of access
land ownership
Measuring gender inequality in land ownership is essential for assessing progress in women’s economic empowerment, tracing the impact of progressive laws on actual practice, and monitoring SDG 5 on gender equality. To effectively assess inter-gender (male-female) gaps in land ownership, however, requires multiple measures. We also need to know which women are more likely to own land by tracing intra-gender differences. To date, no study on India has provided a full range of measures on inter-gender inequality in land ownership or focused on intra-gender variations.
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Farm power policies and groundwater markets contrasting Gujarat with West Bengal (1990–2015)

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
India
tenant farmers
With India emerging as the world’s largest groundwater irrigator, marginal farmers and tenants in many parts have come to depend on informal water markets for irrigation. Power subsidies have grown these markets and made them pro-poor, but are also responsible for groundwater depletion, and for financial troubles of electricity distribution companies of India or DISCOMs. Gujarat has successfully reduced subsidies by rationing farm power supply, and West Bengal has done so by charging farmers commercial power tariff on metered consumption.
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Groundwater evaporation ponds: a viable option for the management of shallow saline waterlogged areas

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
India
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
food security
land degradation
The province of Punjab is the main food basket of India. In recent years, many regions of Punjab are facing acute waterlogging problems and increased secondary salinity, which have negative impacts on food security of the nation. In particular, these problems are more pronounced in the Muktsar district of Punjab. The observed groundwater levels trend between 2005 and 2011 implies that groundwater levels are coming towards the land surface at the rate of 0.5 m/year in Lambi and Malout blocks.
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Patterns and drivers of dairy development in India: insights from analysis of household and district-level data

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
India
Urban Tenure
urbanization
land ownership
farmers
Traditionally, Indian farmers kept bovines, especially cattle, for draught purposes in agriculture and transportation with milk as an adjunct. However, with increasing farm mechanization and rising demand for milk, the bovine functions have shifted more towards dairying. While bovine population has been increasing, the chronic scarcity of feed and fodder reinforces the need for optimization of bovine population for sustainable growth of dairying.
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Mapping and Inventory of Forest Fires in Andhra Pradesh, India: Current Status and Conservation Needs

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2012
India, Southern Asia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
forest land
land management
protected areas
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Estimation of specific yield using water table fluctuations and cropped area in a hardrock aquifer system of Rajasthan, India

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
India
land use
farmland
Assessment of specific yields is important for effective groundwater management in semi-arid hardrock aquifers, especially in India with its unsustainable groundwater usage rates. The Dharta watershed in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan is one such hardrock area in India where the groundwater extraction rate is a concern.
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The Ganges River Basin: status and challenges in water, environment and livelihoods

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
India, Nepal, Bangladesh
Land, Climate Change & Environment
natural resources management
water management
land ownership
climate change