{"id":187449,"date":"2022-05-31T22:13:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=187449"},"modified":"2022-09-27T17:01:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T11:31:40","slug":"answered-what-are-community-forest-resource-rights-highlight-the-significance-of-the-recognition-of-cfr-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-what-are-community-forest-resource-rights-highlight-the-significance-of-the-recognition-of-cfr-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] What are Community Forest Resource rights? Highlight the significance of the recognition of CFR rights."},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"624\"><strong>Introduction: <\/strong>Contextual introduction.<br \/>\n<strong>Body<\/strong>: Explain Community Forest Resource rights. Also write the significance of the recognition of CFR rights.<br \/>\n<strong>Conclusion<\/strong>: Write a way forward.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The community forest resource area is the common forest land that has been traditionally protected for sustainable use by a particular community. The community uses it to access resources available within the traditional and customary boundary of the village. It may include forest of any category-revenue forest, classified &amp; unclassified forest, deemed forest, reserve forest, protected forest, sanctuary and national parks etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Community Forest Resource rights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Community Forest Resource (CFR) rights under <strong>Section 3(1)(i) of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Forest Rights Act, FRA)<\/strong> provide for recognition of the right to \u201cprotect, regenerate or conserve or manage\u201d the community forest resource.<\/li>\n<li>These rights allow the community to formulate rules for forest use by itself and others and thereby discharge its responsibilities under Section 5 of the FRA.<\/li>\n<li>CFR rights, along with Community Rights (CRs) under Sections 3(1)(b) and 3(1)(c), which include rights over non-timber forest products, ensure sustainable livelihoods of the community.<\/li>\n<li>These rights give the authority to the Gram Sabha to adopt local traditional practices of forest conservation and management within the community forest resource boundary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why is the recognition of CFR rights important?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It aims at <strong>undoing the \u201chistoric injustice\u201d<\/strong> done to forest-dependent communities due to curtailment of their customary rights over forests.<\/li>\n<li>It is important as it recognises the community\u2019s <strong>right to use, manage and conserve forest<\/strong> <strong>resources<\/strong> and to legally hold forest land that these communities have used for cultivation and residence.<\/li>\n<li>It also underlines the integral role that forest dwellers play in <strong>sustainability of forests<\/strong> and in conservation of biodiversity.<\/li>\n<li>It is of greater significance inside protected forests like national parks, sanctuaries and tiger reserves as traditional dwellers then become a part of <strong>management of the protected forests<\/strong> using their traditional wisdom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CFR rights are an important empowerment tool for the environment protection as well as sustainable development. Thus, it is important to develop a detailed strategy of training and capacity building of people responsible for implementing the FRA<strong>,<\/strong> such as Panchayats, Gram Sabha, village level Forest Rights committee etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: Contextual introduction. Body: Explain Community Forest Resource rights. Also write the significance of the recognition of CFR rights. Conclusion: Write a way forward. The community forest resource area is the common forest land that has been traditionally protected for sustainable use by a particular community. The community uses it to access resources available within&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-what-are-community-forest-resource-rights-highlight-the-significance-of-the-recognition-of-cfr-rights\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Answered] What are Community Forest Resource rights? Highlight the significance of the recognition of CFR rights.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}