Forests

472 JFMC working for forest management in Tripura

AGARTALA, Aug 10: In a bid to protect, conserve and develop the degraded forest areas, the State Government has constituted as many as 472 Joint Forest Management Committees (JFMC) with local communities.

Publication Date: 
11/08/2009
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
Forests, Forest Management, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Tripura
Forests

Indias forest and tree cover: contribution as a carbon sink

This ICFRE paper focuses on carbon value of India

Publication Date: 
11/08/2009
Rajiv Pandey, Jagdish Kishwan, V K Dadhwal
Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
Tags:
Forests, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Trees, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Climate Mitigation, Carbon Capture and Storage, Biomass, Carbon Sinks, Carbon Sequestration, India
Forests

Indias forest and tree cover: contribution as a carbon sink - brochure

Forestry is at the centre-stage of global climate change negotiations. This is because forests have the potential to be a carbon sink as well as a source of carbon emissions. This publication provides a useful snapshot of the carbon value of India

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
Tags:
Forests, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Trees, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Climate Mitigation, Carbon Capture and Storage, Biomass, Carbon Sinks, Carbon Sequestration, India
Forests

Khatpura revisited: A JFM review

Once in the year 1998, in search of a village on the way to Panchmarhi for conducting the exposure visit for the international participants of an international training programme the village Khatpura was discovered by three IIFM Faculty. The village became a remarkable successful JFM village in Sehore Forest Division.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2009
D. Debnath
IIF Communique
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Tags:
Forests, Forest Conservation, Forest Villages, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Public Participation, Sehore (D), D. Debnath, IIF Communique
Biodiversity

Biodiversity conservation and rural livelihood improvement project: social & environmental assessment of Little Rann of Katchchh

Publication Date: 
01/07/2009
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
Tags:
Agriculture, Salt, Litte Rann Of Kachh, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Minor Forest Produce, Landscape Design, Charcoal, Biodiversity Conservation, NGO, India, Gujarat
Forests

Evolving an effective management information system to monitor co-management of forests

The failure of the Joint Forest Management programme since 2000 to sustain the growth in afforestation achieved during the 1990s is a cause for concern. This paper looks at the necessity of developing an effective management information system that can contribute meaningfully to the resilience of a jfm system.

Publication Date: 
02/05/2009
Milindo Chakrabarti, Samar K Datta
Economic and Political Weekly
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18
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Tags:
Forests, Forest Management, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Afforestation, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Benefit Sharing, Public Participation, India
Forests

Tropical forest tenure assessment: trends, challenges and opportunities

The goal of this report is to present and analyze the state of forest tenure in much of the world

Publication Date: 
01/05/2009
Rights and Resources Initiative
Tags:
Forests, Ecosystem Services, Land Ownership, Tropical Forests, Forest Policy, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Climate Change, People, Governance
Environment

Sikkim-Towards plentiful harvest

Awards have been the norm of the day for the little Himalayan state of Sikkirn under the able guidance of its visionary chief minister, Pawan Chamling. The Nirmal Gram Purashkar 2009,4th JRD Tata Memorial Award for health achievement 2009, Emerging Tourism State 2008, Most Picturesque Destination 2007 are only a few feather's in the cap worn by the dynamic leader.

Publication Date: 
09/03/2009
India Today (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ecotourism, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Watershed Development, Plastics, Health Care, Rural Development, Sikkim
Forests

Joint Forest Management: Critical issues

The Joint Forest Management circular that took the National Forest Policy (1988) as its basis for people

Publication Date: 
24/01/2009
Debnarayan Sarker
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
Forests, Forest Management, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Benefit Sharing, Public Participation, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Nagaland, West Bengal
Forests

Tripura gets external aid for forestry

Agartala, Dec 4: The Centre has allowed external assistance only for Tripura in the forestry sector in Northeastern states with the success of joint forest management approach in the State.

Publication Date: 
05/12/2008
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
Forests, Forest Management, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Tripura

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