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The newsletter brings together news related to policies, happenings and issues around the community forest rights provisions of the indian forest rights act. The nation currently faces the challenge of how to better address. Potential for recognition of community forest resource rights. Rights act, 2006, commonly referred to as the forest right act fra, is considered a. Community forest rights the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006 hereafter forest rights act or fra, came into force in 2008. Local community attitudes toward forests outside protected. The madavan gouri forest rights committee hold a meeting to discuss their latest plan of action. The context the issue of forest rights in india can be interpreted from diff erent perspectives depending on whether one is a forest dweller, forest offi cial, environmentalist, economist or social activist. Joint forest management is targeted at degraded zones of the reserved forests with the aim of restoring them with the participation of the people.

Community forest rights under the forest rights act by kalpavriksh and vasundhara in collaboration with oxfam india an output of the community forest rightslearning and advocacy cfrla process citizens report 2 0 1 5. National community forestry center northern forest region august, 2000. Pdf on jan 3, 2017, erik meijaard and others published getting community forest reforms right find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Over the last twenty years, this subsistence strategy has evolved into a development strategy that has become increasingly. Community claims on forest resources in madhya pradesh. A legal optionrightresponsibility to protect wildlife, forests and biodiversity while empowering the gram sabha to regulate access to community forest. The act also recognizes traditional or customary rights of the forest dwelling communities section 3.

Community management of natural resources in africa. Community forest rights at a glance forest rights act. Traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act. The role of the community in the management of forests in. By just going about their daily lives, they became illegal forest offenders overnight. Impacts, experiences and future directions in many parts of africa, local communities have depended on, and managed, wildlife as a key resource since the stone age. In return, villagers get a share of the benefits from forest resources and various other incentives funded by the government or outside agencies. Act, rules and guidelines a right to hold and live in the forest land under the individual or common occupation for habitation or for selfcultivation for livelihood by a member or members of a forest dwelling scheduled tribe or other traditional forest dwellers. Investigating community forest resource rights icca consortium. The 1927 act was a big problem for tribal communities, who have relied for generations on collecting forest produce for their food, medicines and livelihood. Forest landscape restoration, flr, is one of the newer initiatives to be put forward to help solve the problem. Strengthening communities to claim community forest rights in. The concept covers a range of activities including indigenous management of sacred sites of cultural importance, smallholder forestry schemes, smallscale forestbased enterprises. Pdf on oct 1, 2016, sanghamitra dubey and others published community forest rights at a glance find, read and cite all the research you.

Recognition of community rights under forest rights act in. Getting community forest reforms right erik meijaard coordinates the borneo futures initiative. The law provides a framework for recording of forest rights so vested along with the evidences required for the. Community forest rights at a glance welcome to forest. People living in a reserved forest had no right to pluck even a leaf from the forests surrounding their village. Sugeng budiharta and truly santika are indonesian scientists with the purwodadi botanic gardenindonesian institute of sciences and the university of queensland, respectively. T he eyes of the world are once again on indonesia. Recognition of community forest rights under the forest. Pdf community forest rights at a glance researchgate.

After multiple attempts, mgsa and the frc ended up mobilising 4000 villagers to gherao lay siege to the local government office in malthon, carrying out a dharna peaceful sitin protest. The study was guided by the theory of network governance advanced by miles and snow 1986. Community forest rights at a glance this report is an outcome of the community forest rightslearning and advocacy process cfrla which was initiated in 2011 to facilitate exchange of information and experiences to reinforce national level efforts for evidencebased advocacy on community. Broadly defined, cbf encompasses the management of forest lands and forest resources by or with local people, individually or in groups, and for commercial or noncommercial purposes. It aspires to undo the historic injustice meted out to forest dependent communities by recognizing and vesting in them the rights to use, manage and conserve forest resources and to legally hold forest lands. Tribes research and training institute, scstrti, bhubaneswar, odisha march 2016.