Policy Brief

Biodiversity and Land Restoration in India: A Narrative of India's Sustainability Efforts Vis-à-vis the World

12 Nov 2024
| Mr R R Rashmi
| Dr Manish Anand

    

Meeting the challenges of human-wildlife conflict reconciliation in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve

06 Feb 2020
| Mr Siddharth S Edake
| Mr Jitendra Vir Sharma
| Mr Yatish A Lele
| Prerna Singh

Human-wildlife conflict (HWC) leads to the bearing of direct as well as indirect economic costs of conflict by the communities. Such losses can seriously dent the incomes of concerned community members and result in increased antagonism towards conservation in general. This research in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve (DTR) highlights that communities have to incur major economic losses due to crop depredation and the average annual household monetary losses are highest in Katarniaghat – 10.17% of the average annual household income followed by 7.25% of the average annual household income in Dudhwa and 5.8% of the average annual household income in Kishanpur.

Carbon finance: Solution for mitigating human–wildlife conflict in and around critical tiger habitats of India

29 Jan 2020
| Mr Yatish A Lele
| Mr Jitendra Vir Sharma

Our study in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh indicates to the fact that use of Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standards (CCBS) approach to generate carbon finance can yield 8 times more finance than just considering the aspect of carbon sequestration.

Minimum Support Price of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) and Its Sustainable Harvest: A Social Safety Measure for MFP Collectors in India

15 Feb 2018
| Dr Jitendra Vir Sharma
| Dr Yogesh Gokhale
| Mr Nishant Jain
| Mr Yatish A Lele
| Ms Aparna Tyagi

Forests in India are treated primarily as social and environmental resource, and only secondarily, as commercial resource. More than 300 million people derive full or partial livelihood and sustenance need from forests. Many a times, communities are compelled to harvest forest produce unsustainably due to lack of adequate finance to meet their day to day life supporting needs. With such large population dependent on forest resources, the minor forest produce (MFP) sector is India’s largest unorganized sector.

Persistent organic pollutants in Indian environment: a wake-up call for concerted action

11 Jan 2018
| Dr Girija K Bharat

India has a comprehensive apparatus of environmental laws. However, the lack of an integrated approach to the regulation of chemicals, poor management of pollution, and the fundamentally retrospective vision have resulted in ineffective implementation of the laws as demonstrated by the example of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the environment.