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Newpapers Articles
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India’s Forest Surveys Conceal a Deep Institutional Failure Forest Survey of India’s assessment of tree cover not only reveals a deeply flawed methodology but also points to a circular accountability problem. -
Carrying Forward Learnings on CFRR implementation and management to greater Bastar region In any action research project, how does one balance the need to improve the quality of on-ground interventions with the need to scale-up these interventions to wider geographies? -
Learning From and Carrying Forward CFR Management Planning in Central India How does Community Forest Resource (CFR) management work on the ground? What can we learn from the decade-long history of such management by villages in Maharashtra to build capacities -
Shoots and Leaves – August Edition The need for decentralizing and democratizing forest governance has been recognized in international forestry circles for quite some time. India has been at the forefront of such thinking, right from the days of the Chipko Andolan in the 1970s. -
Branches (quarterly newsletter) Write-Up Among the rights that the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006, recognizes, is the right of local communities to forest resources and to manage them sustainably as a collective. -
Blog Article on Claim Making and WebGIS workshops How do we as researchers help in the implementation of a progressive but complex piece of nature resource legislation? The implementation of the Forest Rights Act of 2006, especially its community rights provisions, has raised this question for us repeatedly.