RRI Work and Resources in India

RRI continues to monitor implementation of the historically important 2006 Forest Rights Act. A comprehensive study of the dynamics of forestland grabs will contribute to both an upcoming legislative debate on the Land Acquisition Bill and new advocacy strategies among tribal and rural activists.
 

Below you can find resources for India listed by resource-type (i.e. News, Publications, Events).

Upcoming Events!

• Next Generation of Forest Agency Leaders: Global Issues in Governance
  May 27, 2013 - Oaxaca, Mexico

Recent News

• CSE: Wind energy and small hydro power can exert severe environmental impacts May 17, 2013
• The Hindu: Dalit activists announce two-day sit-in for land rights May 02, 2013
• WSJ: A Priceless Asset For India’s Women May 02, 2013
• Amnesty International: India: Landmark Supreme Court ruling a great victory for indigenous rights April 22, 2013
• IPS: India Undercuts Tribal Rights April 08, 2013
• Time: In India, Development Fuels Disputes Over Land April 03, 2013
• Global Food For Thought: Securing Women's Right to Land Ownership March 22, 2013
• The Hindu: 4 anti-POSCO activists killed in bomb blast March 03, 2013
• Nourishing the Planet: New Reports Reveal the Human and Financial Costs of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions February 22, 2013
• The Guardian: Land-grabbing firms beware: cost of ignoring people's rights is rising February 18, 2013

Publications relating to India

• IPS: India Undercuts Tribal Rights
• Time: In India, Development Fuels Disputes Over Land
• Conference on Forests and Common Lands:Rights, Conflicts, FRA and PESA
• Conference on Forests and Common Lands
• Nourishing the Planet: New Reports Reveal the Human and Financial Costs of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions
  
• Global Post: Investors who trample land rights risk bottom line: experts
• Agence France Presse: Investors trampling land rights risk bottom line: experts
• YubaNet: Global Land Grab Brings Significant Risk to Investors As Communities Respond to Economic Harm, Human Rights Abuses
• Undemocratic and Arbitrary
• Land Conflicts Map
• Estimation of Land Requirement for emergent sectors
• Traditional populations and forests: An overview of Brazilian policies
• Traditional populations and forests: An overview of Brazilian policies
• The Times of India: Violent land conflicts increasing in India: Report
• Mail Today India: Land Buy Conflicts Set To Rise Across The Country
  
• India Waterportal: Land grab is emerging as the country's most pressing development challenge - New research released at a conference organised by SPWD and RRI at New Delhi in December 2012
• Gobar Times: Of land rights and land grab
  
• Agence France Presse: Indian land bill no remedy for conflict: activists
  
• The Tribune India: ‘India among top land-grabbing nations’
• Radio Australia: Interview with RRI's Arvind Khare on landgrabs in India
  
• Truthdive: India can expect rising civil unrest as result of massive land grab by investors for commercial projects
  
• Down To Earth: India Inc. involved in land grab abroad too, says international non-profit
• Down To Earth: Land unrest set to increase in India: study
• IANS: Violent land conflicts increasing in India: Report
  
• Press Release: New Research Predicts Rising Trend in India’s Violent Land Conflicts; Map Shows Massive Resource Takeover Spurs Conflict in 130 Districts
• India Blooms: India joins land-grabbing league, says RRI
• Deeper Roots of Historical Injustice
• Large Scale Land Aqcuisitions: An International Overview
• South Asia One World: Nature's guardians
• India Blooms: The Green Brigade
• Forest Tenure Reform- New Resource Rights for Forest based Communities
• Alert Net Reuters: Climate Conversations - 6 ways to secure land rights for sustainable development
  
• India Blooms News Service: Unenforced laws undermine forest people's rights: Study
• Washington Post: Studies show land rights reform key to saving forests, fighting climate change
• IANS: Community land rights unenforced in Third World
• Press Release: New Study Reports Rise in Community Land Rights in Tropical Forests; Yet Most Laws in Asia, Africa Remain either Meaningless or Unenforced
• Background: India's Tenure Reform Experience, 1992-2012
• The Year in Review for Rainforests
• South Asia Forest Tenure Assessment
• Tenure Data - India
• The Greener Side of REDD+
• Press Coverage of the Rights, Forests, and Climate Change Conference in Oslo, Norway
  
• Press Coverage for the Tropical Forest Tenure Assessment
  
• Press Coverage for the Seeing People through the Trees Report Release
  
• INDIA: Tribal Movements Score Historic Victory Against Multinational Corporation
• Forest Governance in Countries with Federal Systems of Government
• Forest-Related Conflict
• International Conference on Community Rights, Forests and Climate Change
• Kalpavriksh Newsletter - Issue 4, October 2008
• Urgent action letter calling on the Government of India to respect the rights of the Dongria Kondh people

Past

• International Conference on Community Rights, Forests and Climate Change
  August 17, 2009 - New Delhi, India
• Indian Forestry: Key Trends and Challenges
  March 05, 2009 - New Delhi, India