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    Legal limits to tribal governance: coal mining in Meghalaya, India

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2017
    Land in Meghalaya, India, was traditionally agricultural land, owned by the community. With increasing privatization and rising commercial value of land for non-agricultural use, many owners have sold the land for mining operations. So-called rat-hole coal mining has resulted in environmental degradation as well as in the loss of lives of miners, most of whom are from outside the state.
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    Tribal representation & local land governance in India: A case study from the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2017
    In India, the Schedule Tribes have remained on the fringes of growth, but less so in the majority tribal areas of the North East. This has increased the interest in the Sixth Schedule, the special constitutional provision relating to these areas, recognising the tribal communities’ rights of ownership and control over their land and natural resources.
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    The search for a model land legislation: the new land bill and its challenges

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2011
    The draft Indian Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on September 7, 2011 is one of the most important legislations waiting for Parliamentary approval. In its present form, the bill is a major improvement over the archaic 1894 land law that has contributed to the impasse over land acquisitions across the country.
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    Post - 2015 Development Agenda - India National Consultation Report: Farmer’s Associations Constituency

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2013
    The Small Farmers’ Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC) in India was set up in 1994 to create a conducive environment for generating rural employment and facilitating farmer-growth through new ventures in agro-based industries, fisheries and horticulture.
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    Pro-Poor Value Chain Development for High ValueProducts in Mountain Regions: Indian Bay Leaf

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2011
    Production of high value products and services can help reduce poverty in mountain regions. Value chains can be used to describe the activities and benefits involved in bringing such a product from the producer to the market, and analysed to identify improvements along the chain which, if addressed, yield the highest positive outcome for small producers, traders, and processors.
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    Technological change and new actors: debate on returns and regulations

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    New technology in the seed sector has brought in new actors and new requirements for regulation. It is important to discuss how far India is working on new opportunities and policy options for effective and rationale regulatory framework.
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    Agro-industry as the ‘Mahayana’ of international cooperation: a world waiting to be born

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    A highly positive sum game awaits the community of nations if a cooperative international programme for rural industrialization in the developing world generally, through a boost to the agro-industry (supplier) sector world-wide, could be brought into play. The rural economy, which is the mainstay of the bulk of the population in most developing coun
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    Synthetic biology in India: issues in risk, power and governance

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2014
    Synthetic biology is an emerging technology that can facilitate ‘design’ and ‘creation’ of micro-organisms which may not be found in nature. Synthetic biology is considered as an amalgamation of principles of engineering and biology. Globally synthetic biology has advanced rapidly in the last decade; however, in India it is in nascent stages.
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    Rights-based approaches to forest conservation

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2008
    In context of the recent emergence of the debate on rights-based approaches (RBA) to conservation, this paper provides a collaborative piece of work on the constitution of RBA’s and some of the key issues surrounding them. It also looks at some examples from countries where there is a need for RBA’s.
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    Improving land access for India's rural poor

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2008
    Since Independence, India’s states have employed several land reform ‘tools,’ including reforming tenancy, imposing land ceilings, distributing government wasteland, and allocating house sites and homestead plots. This article briefly summarises some of these past efforts and attempts to draw broad lessons for informing possible policy paths ahead.

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