Research

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;

    1. Ecological questions about strategies for sustainable production and harvest of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), grazing, fire management, and protection of wildlife,
    2. Socio-economic questions on creation and equitable sharing of sustained benefits from NTFP-based livelihoods and other forest-based activities,
    3. Challenges in and strategies for claiming forest rights, including the special case of forest villages, and in translating rights into management plans and practices,
    4. Visioning and building multi-layered democratic forest governance, and
    5. Integration of other legislations with FRA, and of wider environmental and developmental policies with decentralized forest governance.

Potential mapping

Claim Making

Management Planning

Post Claims Management

Critical Wildlife Habitats

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