Work

Promise and Performance: 10 Years of the Forest Rights Act in India

Year: 2016

Type: report

Abstract: Beyond the numbers, this report highlights FRA’s potential in transforming forest governance by empowering local communities and the gram sabha to protect and conserve forests; ensuring livelihood security and poverty alleviation; securing gender justice; meeting SDG, especially the goals of eliminating poverty and achieving ecological sustainability; and dealing with climate change. By securing land and resource rights, FRA provides an opportunity to address Left-wing extremism in 106 districts in India’s 10 states.

DOI: 10.53892/dgyr3365

Author: Community Forest Rights - Learning and Advocacy

Language: English

Topic: Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Life on land, Peace, justice, and strong institutions, No poverty

Open Access status: gold

Funders: Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

OpenAlex ID: W4293862737

Cites:

Cited by: 4

Related to: 10