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Social forestry is the management and protection of forests and afforestation of barren and deforested lands with the purpose of helping environmental, social and rural development. The term social forestry was first used in 1976 by The National Commission on Agriculture , when the government of India aimed to reduce pressure on forests by ...
The reason for this latter phenomenon is India's forest laws. India's forests are governed by two main laws, the Indian Forest Act, 1927 and the Wild life (Protection) Act, 1972. The former empowers the government to declare any area to be a reserved forest, protected forest or village forest.
Centre for Forestry Research and Human Resource Development, Chhindwara; Centre for Social Forestry and Eco-Rehabilitation, Prayagraj; Forest Research Institute (India), Dehradun; Himalayan Forest Research Institute, Shimla; Institute of Forest Biodiversity, Hyderabad; Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Coimbatore
The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) [2] [3] [4] is an autonomous organisation [5] [6] or governmental agency under the MoEFCC, Government of India. Headquartered in Dehradun , its functions are to conduct forestry research; transfer the technologies developed to the states of India and other user agencies; and to ...
Sir Dietrich Brandis, the Inspector General of Forests in India from 1864 to 1883, is regarded as the father not only of scientific forestry in India, but as the "father of tropical forestry." [15] An FAO report claims it was believed in colonial times that the forest is a national resource which should be utilised for the interests of the ...
The commission was set up in 2003 to review and assess India's policy and law and their effect on India's forests. It was given instructions to make recommendations on ways India could achieve sustainable forest and ecological security. [2] The report made over 300 recommendations to the Indian Board of Wildlife.
A "Common Important Forest" in India is a forest governed by local communities in a way compatible with sustainable development.Such forests are typically called village forests or panchayat forests, reflecting the fact that the administration and resource use of the forest occurs at the village and panchayat (an elected rural body) levels.
Land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF), also referred to as Forestry and other land use (FOLU) or Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU), [3] [4]: 65 is defined as a "greenhouse gas inventory sector that covers emissions and removals of greenhouse gases resulting from direct human-induced land use such as settlements and ...