DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOCIAL AND AGRO FORESTRY Agro Forestry Social Forestry Combines with the production of agriculture, crops, forest, forest plants and fodder species simultaneously or sequentially on the same units of land Include forest crops including food, Read More ……
Category: GS Paper-III
SOCIAL FORESTRY
SOCIAL FORESTRY Term ‘social forestry’ was first used by National Commission on Agriculture in 1976. National Forest Policy, 1988 to encourage a need-based and time bound programme of afforestation and tree planting through afforestation, social forestry & farm forestry Read More ……
PROBLEMS WITH SOCIAL FORESTRY
PROBLEMS WITH SOCIAL FORESTRY 1. Social forestry was conceived as people centered program. A program to empower poor people for the fuel wood, fodder and other timber needs. But it actually became a government program and the Read More ……
Causes for backwardness of Indian Agriculture
Causes for backwardness of Indian Agriculture Old methods of cultivation due to illiteracy & unawareness Over-dependence on monsoons Floods and droughts; Soil erosion Small and fragmented land holding Practice of dividing and subdividing land for inheritance Poor Read More ……
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Participatory tool for ensuring optimal use of natural resources for sustainable development. Use to predict the environmental consequences (positive or negative) of a plan, policy, program, or project prior to the decision to move Read More ……
Environmental Movements in India
Environmental or Green or Conservation Movement Social or political movement for conservation or improvement of environment. Centered on ecology, health and human rights. Favour the sustainable management of natural resources via changes in public policy. From Highly organized and formally institutionalized Read More ……
Genetically Modified Crops : No panacea to food security
Genetically Modified Crops : No panacea to food security “Genetically Modified Crops: An alteration of genetic material of an organism by modern biotechnological techniques, whereby Read More ……
Covention on Biodiversity
Convention on Biodiversity Opened for signature at the Earth Summit in 1992 and entered into force on December 29, 1993 There are 193 parties. Its secretariat is based in Montreal, Canada. US has signed but not ratified the Read More ……