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  1. Library Resource

    Volume 6 Issue 3

    Peer-reviewed publication
    October, 2017
    India

    With challenges from global climate change, it is imperative to enhance food production using climate-smart technologies and maximize farm efficiency. Fifty-six households in Rudhiapada and Badamahulidiha, Odisha, India were selected to evaluate farmers’ efficiency using conservation agriculture (CA) cropping system practices. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and regression analysis were used to estimate farmer efficiency and the determinants of yield.

  2. Library Resource
    Strengthening Land Tenure in Informal Settings: A Fit-For-Purpose Approach
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2018
    Kenya, Tanzania, Myanmar, India, Nepal, Global

    A functioning land administration sector is the foundation for economic growth. Unfortunately, effective land registry and cadastral systems with national coverage exist in only a fraction of the world’s countries. Cadasta Foundation is working to overcome this challenge by developing simple digital tools and technology to help partners efficiently document, analyze, store, and share critical land and resource rights information.

  3. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    September, 2010
    India

    This study aims at presenting a conceptual model for landscape management in the Himalayan region of India,
    using quantitative/mathematical approach. Keeping in view the requirement, (based on fifteen years empirical
    field work in the Himalayan region and as well as literature survey) the MODAM (Multiple Objectives Decision
    Support Tools for Landscape Management) model along with linear programming approach was adopted with a
    view to presenting additional methodological perspectives on interdisciplinary landscape research. The work has

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2017
    India

    The  study is focused on RS and GIS based assessment of forest encroachment in Shimoga district of Karnataka for the years 1990, 2000 and 2010 using Landsat TM/MSS/ETM+ for 1990 and 2000, mid south western part of malnad region of Karnataka state, geographically lies between 13°27' and 14°39' N latitudes and 74°38' and 76°4'E longitudes.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2009
    India

    The Joint Forest Management circular that took the National Forest Policy (1988) as its basis for people’s involvement in the development and protection of forests, issued more than 18 years ago, has failed in its attempt to utilise forest wealth to improve local livelihoods. The structure of the JFM is skewed towards the forest department and needs to be balanced with equal opportunities and rights to the participating communities.

    Author pesents the critical issues of Joint Forest Management in this article.

  6. Library Resource

    Linking Innovation and Local Benefits

    Reports & Research
    Journal Articles & Books
    February, 2017
    India, Mauritania, Pakistan, Morocco, Brazil

    Expansion and development of urban areas require acquisition of land, which, in turn, often requires physical relocation of people who own or occupy this land. Land acquisition and resettlement may also be required to improve the lives of the more than 1 billion people who currently live in slums around the world, most of them in developing countries. Therefore, any effort to embark on significant, sustainable urban development needs to ensure that there are adequate processes for land acquisition and, so that resettlement does not become a constraint to much needed urban development.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2011
    India

    Access to land and land-based resources has been a critical issue for the Adivasi living in forested landscapes of Central India, including Odisha. This paper highlights poor access to land as major reasons of poverty among adivasis and recurrent conflicts in tribal regions of Odisha.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    October, 2014
    India

    This monograph is published by Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad observed large scale acquisition of agricultural lands in India in recent years for Special Economic Zones (SEZs), thermal power plants, irrigation projects etc., have become serious issue of socio-political contestation. Large scale corporate land grab taken place due to big involvement of private sector. In undivided Andhra Pradesh state, land acquisition for irrigation projects and SEZs, industrial and power projects in private sector are major issues of contention.

  9. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2006
    India

    This paper is published in Conservation and Society, Volume 4, No. 1, March 2006 which mainly examine the detailed variations of CPR use across different agro-climatic zones and critically analyzing the implications of such variations in understanding of the commons.

  10. Library Resource
    Land Acquisition in India: History and Present Scenario
    Journal Articles & Books
    August, 2016
    India

    The paper gives historical background of the land acquisition process in India and the struggle since 1824. It descrbed the political processes in which the LARR Act 2013 came into being in Indian Parliament.

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