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9 January 2020
Activists concerned Forest Advisory Committee recommendation will lead to privatisation, destruction of forests
The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) has recommended that private players be allowed to raise plantations to be later used for compensatory afforestation (CA). This has raised concerns…
6 January 2020
When Manjari was 23, she was elected the first woman pradhan in her village as well as in all of Himachal Pradesh. She hasn't looked back since.
It’s a crisp winter morning in the mountain village of Ribba in Kinnaur district, Himachal Pradesh. I walk up a hill, looking for the house where…
6 January 2020
The following story is developed from remarks at TEDxJakarta 2019.
In India, a widow named Sonamoti lacks the resources to feed her only son because she was deprived her share of family land. She wishes for the means to grow food for him.
Villagers in Myanmar fear the loss of their homes…
6 January 2020
A government campaign to plant more trees has sparked a negative response from the indigenous communities of India.
TEAT ROWS of saplings dot the grass on a new plantation about 750 miles south of India’s capital, New Delhi. Here, in the Ambagad Chowki Forest Range, the young teak trees are part…
16 December 2019
Quase 45% da área de Maharashtra está a transformar-se em deserto, assim como uma grande parte da Índia. De acordo com a Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU), o ritmo da desertificação no país é agora 35 vezes mais rápido.
A degradação do solo – processo no qual a terra perde a sua produtividade e a…
25 November 2019
The maximum limit for allotment of land for special cultivation to registered co-operative society will be 150 bigha
Small indigenous growers in Assam will get upto 30 bigha of government highland and ceiling surplus land for special cultivation like tea, coffee and rubber under the state Land…
4 November 2019
There are at least 362,450 landless indigenous people in the state and at least 40 lakh without land pattas
The Bhumi Adhikar Sangram Samiti, Assam, and the Guwahati Mati Pattakaran Sangram Samiti on Monday unanimously criticised the Assam government’s decision to adopt a new land policy which…
24 October 2019
Restrictions on land leasing in India have made it more difficult for marginal farmers to access land and finances, pushing them into informal leases that heighten their insecurity
Farming is a way of life in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, where three-quarters of the state’s 200…
8 October 2019
Segundo dossiê do Instituto Tricontinental, desde 1995, mais de 300 mil agricultores cometeram suicídio no país
O Instituto Tricontinental de Pesquisa Social lançou, nesta terça-feira (8), seu vigésimo primeiro dossiê temático, focado na análise do mundo rural indiano. O documento chamado "A…
30 September 2019
Forest Department is trying to register the land under their name without paying compensation, alleged owners
Supposed land owners in four upazilas of Panchagarh have been claiming the land that the Forest Department acquired in 1967.
Revisional Survey (RS Khatiyan) in Panchagarh is underway, which…
21 September 2019
Non-ownership of land impacts delivery of government services in Bihar
THE FIRST TIME Sadhu Manjhi was introduced to the idea of having a toilet of his own, he felt his head spin. “A landless man like me! Imagine that,” he told himself.
Sadhu lives in Bihar, where more than three in five rural…
10 September 2019
While area under grazing and common lands saw a decline between 2005 and 2015, croplands increased, according to a report India presented to UNCCD
India lost 31 per cent, or 5.65 million hectares (mha), of grassland area in a decade, showed data the Union government presented to the United Nations…