The story of National Bamboo Mission

While the restructuring of the earlier Mission is good news, there is much more that needs to be done

Questions the modern world can't answer

WHO EILL SAVE THE FORESTS? KNOWLEDGE, POWER AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION Edited by: Tariq Banuri and Frederique Apffel Marglin Publisher: Zed …

What is the Green Credit Programme?

It is a first-of-a-kind market-based instrument designed to incentivise individuals, industries and local bodies for their voluntary …

Himachal's fodder management initiative can help save lives of rural women

Many rural women in hilly states sustain injuries while collecting fodder; agro forestry initiative to help address this issue

First time ever, communities' compensation demand for forest diversion finds approval

The communities in Maharashtra affected by diversion of forests due to a transmission project may get the compensation they have demanded

The Eklingapura experience

A joint forest management initiative succeeded at Eklingapura mainly because foresters were able to respond to the needs of the community.

Our oceans are in deep trouble — a ‘mountains to sea’ approach could make a real difference

An ecosystem approach can potentially reconcile conflicts between different user groups

Personality clashes lead to internal schisms

Drones help track wildfires, count wildlife and map plants

After learning how to operate a drone safely, users can acquire a variety of scientific data

Emission impossible

We need to change the way we farm, we eat and we think as agriculture is the largest source of non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions

India’s GDP projected to grow at 7.6% in 2015-16

Agriculture, forestry and fishing sector is estimated to grow only marginally at 1.1 per cent

JAPAN

Forestmaker

A man who has done commendable work in afforestation remains hidden from the limelight

Emissions trading

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 24, 2022)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal 

Interaction stressed among social disciplines

SOCIAL SCIENCE APPLICATIONS IN ASIAN AGROFORESTRY Edited by William R Burch Jr and J Kathy Parker . Publisher: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co …

India was a tree planting laboratory for 200 years — here are the results

Colonial era experiments on forests between 1857 and 1947 offer important lessons on consequences of different approaches to restoring …

Just like a forest

Analog forestry mimics a forest to create an economically productive and ecologically diverse landscape

Vignettes from Sri Lanka's cloud country

In Sri Lanka, organic farmers draw inspiration from endemic practices such as home gardens or analog forestry, and have also adapted ‘…

Private plantations urged on forest land

After supporting India's forestry programmes for almost two decades, the World Bank now is moving toward arrogating to itself governance of the …

"The DANGER to FORESTS is not over"

The subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC) met from June 2-12 1998 in Bonn, Germany. A good …

Cheap fix

The rush to make profits out of carbon-fixing engenders another kind of colonialism

Green cussedness, anyone?

They did the impossible on land that held no hope

A fighting chance

One man's dedication transformed the degraded, deforested land of his village

The bare essentials

To make community forest management a success