Overview
We conduct action and policy-relevant research to address knowledge gaps across ecological, economic, and social dimensions related to community-based forest governance.
Our work addresses;
- Ecological questions about strategies for sustainable production and harvest of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), grazing, fire management, and protection of wildlife,
- Socio-economic questions on creation and equitable sharing of sustained benefits from NTFP-based livelihoods and other forest-based activities,
- Challenges in and strategies for claiming forest rights, including the special case of forest villages, and in translating rights into management plans and practices,
- Visioning and building multi-layered democratic forest governance, and
- Integration of other legislations with FRA, and of wider environmental and developmental policies with decentralized forest governance.
Potential mapping
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Estimating and Mapping CFR Potential This study estimates (a lower bound for) the potential area that could come under CFR rights and the locations of the villages with this CFR potential in four important central Indian states.
Claim Making
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Democratising Forest Governance: Challenges Old and New Review of implementation of FRA in India -
Draft Report of the Working Group on Forest Rights and Community Forest Rights Draft report of the Working Group on Forest Rights and Community Forest Rights in Chhattisgarh -
Mapping the potential of Community Forest Resource Rights in central India The article is based on ATREE's work on methodologies to estimate the potential area that could come under CFR rights and the locations of villages with CFR potential in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Maharashtra. -
Community Forest Rights Recognition in Chhattisgarh State: Progress and Challenges Community Rights (CR) and Community Forest Resource Rights (CFRR) provisions of the FRA, when taken together, have the potential to decentralize and deepen democratic forest governance and bring about a transformative change in the economic and social conditions of the local people, and improve the management of the forests. -
India’s Forest Rights Act, 2006: Stuck in a Maze of Bureaucratic Interpretations? The paper describes the differences in FRA implementation across Karnataka -
Forest Rights in Baiga Chak, Madhya Pradesh The study focuses on the challenges in implementing FRA in Baiga Chak, Madhya Pradesh -
Report of the National Committee on Forest Rights Act Report of the Joint Committee of MOEF and MOTA on Forest Rights Act, 2010 (Government of India)
Management Planning
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Policy Brief: Post-CFR Recognition Policy Support How can the recognition of CFR rights translate into positive and equitable livelihood and conservation outcomes? Much will clearly depend upon the collective decision-making processes adopted at the local level and the policy support provided post-recognition. -
Promoting a responsive state: The role of NGOs in decentralized forest governance in India The study assesses the role of NGOs in providing multidimensional support to communities to actualize rights-based forest governance
Post Claims Management
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Policy Brief: Post-CFR Recognition Policy Support How can the recognition of CFR rights translate into positive and equitable livelihood and conservation outcomes? Much will clearly depend upon the collective decision-making processes adopted at the local level and the policy support provided post-recognition.
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Democratising Forest Governance: Challenges Old and New Review of implementation of FRA in India
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Community Forest Management : A bibliography Bibliographic review of literature on community forest management
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Silvicultural Practices in the Management of Diospyros melanoxylon (Tendu) Leaf Production: Options and Trade-offs The study focuses on comparing management practices for tendu leaf production in Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra -
Decolonising Decentralised Governance : Insights from the Forests of Maharashtra The commentary presents case studies of bureaucratic role in promoting and impeding forest management by communities in Maharashtra -
Understanding Current Forest Policy Debates through Multiple Lenses: The Case of India The article reflects on changes in the forest policy of India from multiple perspectives
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Forest governance: From co-option and conflict to multilayered governance? The article discusses a multi-layered forest governance framework in the post-FRA context -
Co-operative procurement and marketing of Tendu leaves in Madhya Pradesh: Image and reality Assessment of the working of the MP MFP Federation-led Tendu leaf procurement
Critical Wildlife Habitats
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Critical Wildlife Habitat: What is it, how should it be implemented, and how is it being pushed through? This report seeks to clarify in simple language the core legal provisions relating to CWH, their interpretation, and the processes necessary for their proper implementation on the ground. It also identifies where the ongoing process in Maharashtra has deviated from this legally implied process. -
Forest Management and Conservation Regime An assessment of the forest governance regimes is presented in terms of the fairness of priorities chosen for forest management, including attention to customary rights and social justice, effectiveness, sustainability and transparency and accountability in functioning. -
Ensuring a Fair and Sustainable Process in CWH Identification in Melghat Wildlife Sanctuary This is an interim report on Forest Rights Recognition and Ongoing Relocation in Melghat Wildlife Sanctuary