Key development concerns featuring this election

Land restoration target revised to 26 mln ha: Experts call for strategy overhaul

Due caution must be exercised in setting standards and policies for restoration of degraded lands, say experts

Resourceful ministry

Tall claims, small gains

Teak companies are all about broken promises

Mission possible: Turning a waste land into a forest with a bank of traditional seeds

A father-daughter duo grow 800 varieties of traditional seeds in a 2.5-acre land in Nayagarh district of Odisha

Private rights

Overcoming the gender barrier

Several voluntary agencies are working to provide greater control over natural resource use.

Tapping unused government land

There is a need to assess land acquisition and allotment for infrastructure projects, to eliminate the possibility of creating surplus and …

Perfect sense

Forests, fuel and fodder

From deficit to surplus: a success story of joint forest management from Sakwa, a tiny village in south Gujarat

Wasteful plan

Communities in Rajasthan reject draft wasteland policy

Drought but why: Deciphering the disaster in detail

Do you know that a normal monsoon doesn’t mean no drought and the same districts are parched every year. Read all this and much more here …

Development dilemmas

The grass returns

How a village in Rajasthan greened its pasture despite official hamhandedness

Requiem for wasteland development

Villagers one up on government in greening project

The balding hills of Jadhera panchayat in Himachal Pradesh are regaining their vegetation, thanks to an unusual village chief

‘Giving land tenure rights to commons can prevent degradation’

Around 80 million hectare of common lands in India provide livelihood to around 350 million people, finds studies conducted by a Gujarat-based non-…

Himachal Pradesh’s decision to put wasteland in land bank undermines FRA

The state’s request to put degraded forest land in a land bank comes at a time when the government has been dragging its feet on …

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 …

Revegetation on Loess Plateau putting pressure on water resources

Expansion of vegetation cover in areas marked by limited water availability creates “conflicting demands for water between the ecosystem …

Organic way to a bumper crop

Wetlands or wastelands?

"Salwa Judum is peaceful. We support it"

Badlands can earn

Nurturing effect of pine

Pine trees have helped restore native vegetation in Sri Lanka’s Sinharaja Forest Reserve