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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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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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The Legal Regime and Political Economy of Land Rights Of Scheduled Tribes in the Scheduled Areas of India

Reports & Research
March, 2018
India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
indigenous peoples' lands
land acquisitions
customary land rights
legal empowerment
This Report is the outcome of a deep commitment on part of the Land Rights Initiative research team to create systematic knowledge on land issues in India with a view to meaningfully evaluating legal and policy initiatives that can contribute to creation of more equitable land regimes for all. The Report has been in the making for five years and yet remains a work in progress. The dismal plight of the Scheduled Tribes in India is the result of complex current and historical, institutional,social, political, and economic dynamics that have been difficult for us to assess in their totality.
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The ‘Evidentiary Bind’ in Postwar Land Restitution: The Case of Sri Lanka

Journal Articles & Books
July, 2019
Sri Lanka
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
land administration
corruption
land distribution
conflicts
land rights
property
The enormity of the world’s dislocated population generated by contemporary conflicts has brought significant attention to a complicated process of returning housing, land and property (HLP) to their rightful occupants once conditions permit. As the complexity of large-scale HLP restitution becomes increasingly apparent, significant obstacles emerge that require examination. This article describes how the ‘evidentiary bind’ is such an obstacle.
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Shifting Cultivation in Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal: Weighing Government Policies against Customary Tenure and Institutions

Reports & Research
July, 2015
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
land policies
climate change
deforestation
farmland
indigenous peoples' lands
agriculture
sustainable land use
community land rights
Indigenous Peoples
Shifting cultivation is a dominant form of farming in the eastern Himalayas, practised by a diverse group of indigenous people from the most marginalized social and economic groups. The survival of these indigenous people and the survival of their forests are inextricably linked. However, policy makers and natural resource managers perceive shifting cultivation to be wasteful, destructive to forests, and unsustainable.
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Implication of Legislative Reform under The Land Act of Bhutan, 2007: A case study on Nationalization of Tsamdro & Sokshing and its associated socioeconomic and environmental consequences

Reports & Research
December, 2010
Bhutan
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land equity
land law
environment
common lands
pastoral lands
livestock
land tenure
community land rights
land tenure systems
customary tenure
statutory tenure
pastoral land rights
Given its seemingly beneficial aspects to socioeconomic development and environmental well-being, the legislative reforms initiated under the Land Act of Bhutan, 2007 have raised so much consternation as well as hope in the minds of the Bhutanese people who either depend on livestock husbandry or leasing out such rights to others with livestock and compensated with payment in cash or kind in the form of livestock products.
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Nepal: Land for Landless Peasants

Comments and Recommendations on Amendment to the Lands Act 1964

Reports & Research
October, 2019
Nepal
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
development
land law
land reform
land distribution
agriculture
land rights
landlessness
indigenous peoples' land rights
women
ABSTRACTED FROM OVERVIEW:

The Lands Act 1964 was the first comprehensive piece of legislation which came into existence to pave the way for land reform. Key objectives of the Act were a) enhancing the standard of living of people dependent on land including through ensuring “equitable distribution of agricultural land”; and b) securing rapid economic development and wellbeing of the general population through attaining optimum agricultural growth.
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A Study Report on Analysis of Key Land Laws in Sri Lanka

A special reference to Women and Community Land Rights

Reports & Research
October, 2017
Sri Lanka
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land law
land reform
legal pluralism
environment
common lands
land economics
land rights
community land rights
property rights
women
Land is an imperative and crucial factor in the social, cultural and economic identity of the people in Sri Lanka due to the importance it has been given throughout our history. Moreover, the rights and interests over land are unequivocally and legally secured without any discrimination on the basis of gender, caste, religious or ethnic lines for its peaceful enjoyment and for the economic development of the people and the country.
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Equator Initiative Case Studies. India. Shashwat (Hindi)

Local sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities

Reports & Research
December, 2012
India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land rights
land tenure
tenure security
Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practitioners themselves guiding the narrative. The Equator Initiative aims to fill that gap.
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Equator Initiative Case Studies. India. Shashwat (English)

Local sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities

Reports & Research
December, 2012
India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land rights
land tenure
tenure security
Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practitioners themselves guiding the narrative. The Equator Initiative aims to fill that gap.