Desertification in India: Slash-and-burn farming destroys Nagaland

Experts blame shifting cultivation for land degradation as about 20,000 hectares of forest is felled every year in the state for it

Scheme for promoting home gardens needed: Experts

It can ensure nutritional security of people living in areas where shifting cultivation is practiced

Survival of rarest birds found in eastern Himalayas at risk

Deforestation, shifting cultivation and conversion of forests for plantations have led to massive loss of forests

This Odisha tribe grows 20 crop varieties without jeopardising biodiversity

The Bonda tribe practices a unique form of shifting cultivation that enables the growth of many crop varieties while ensuring that the …

Govt needs to address policy ambiguities affecting shifting cultivation: NITI Aayog

The NITI Aayog report recommends doing away with the practice of having divergent approaches towards shifting cultivation

The fire-fighting children of the Khasi Hills and the decline of traditional farming in north-east India

In North-east India, children of the Khasi Hills (Meghalaya) learn slash and burn cultivation, an intergenerational yet controversial indigenous …

A phoenix of a tribe

A nomadic community in Odisha insisted on its right to live and farm even after forest officials burnt its houses

Dousing flames

The Uttarakhand forest fires that lasted for over 100 days should come as a warning to the rest of India since half of its forests are vulnerable …

Battle over oil, coal & forests

Rights without benefits

Over 1.3 million tribals and forest dwellers have got rights over the land they had been using for years under the Forest Rights Act. This can, …

Mountains that matter

The United Nations declares 2002 as the International Year of the Mountains

Final shift

In defence of shifting agriculture

IT HAS taken almost two decades of consistent research into the northeastern tribal practice of shifting agriculture for P S Ramakrishna, …

Green society

AGROFORESTRY IN INDIA K G Tejwani Publisher : Oxford & IBH Publishing Price: not stated

MADAGASCAR

Development offer

VIETNAM

"Developmental aid is part of neocolonialism"

Although RAY WIJEWARDENE, 71, holds degrees in engineering and aeronautics from Cambridge, is a Doctor of Science (Honorls causa) from Sri Lanka'…

Forest guardians

THE LAST FRONTIER: PEOPLE AND FORESTS IN MIZORAM·Daman Singh·Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi

RWANDA

Jhum works

Shillong meet declares shifting cultivation environment-friendly

Ominous signs

Himalayan plunder

PEOPLE OF THE HIMALAYAS: ECOLOGY, CULTURE, DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE· Guest Editor: K C Mahanta·Kamla Raj Publishers and Printers, New …

Rubber cultivation

Return our forests

S C Tripura, a Congress party member of  the Tripura legislative assembly, talks to  Nitin Sethi about the consequences of  …