Source: Land Rights Now Campaign
As India’s upper house is currently debating a controversial afforestation bill, civil society groups across the country are expressing concerns that the bill would do more harm than good.
By: John C. Cannon
Date: March 30th 2016
Source: Mongabay
By: Siddharth Ranjan Das
Date: February 27th 2016
Source: NDTV
SARGUJA: Deep inside Chhattisgarh's Hasdeo Arand forest, the silence of the woods is broken by the mechanical sounds of coal mine workers cutting trees near the Ghatbarra village of Sarguja district.
But around 300 tribal families in the village allege what is also being wrecked is the law that assured them first rights to the forest.
By: Nitin Sethi
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: Business Standard
By: Angela K. Evans
Date: February 12th 2016
Source: Boulder Weekly
“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”
By: Max Lewontin
Date: February 4th 2016
Source: Christian Science Monitor
By: Callistasia Anggun Wijaya
Date: January 27th 2016
Source: Jakarta Post
The criminalization and discrimination of indigenous people by the government and other parties has worsened, especially because no regulation protects their rights, says the Alliance of Indigenous People (AMAN).
Forested landscapes worldwide are increasingly integrated in global processes of trade, market development, resource exploitation and climate change. Site-based or community level approaches can no longer cope with these issues which exceed the local sphere of influence. Although landscapes are usually considered to be appropriate levels to negotiate land use options, they are rarely recognised as units of political- administrative decision making, hence do not have any formal place in decentralised structures of states.
