



Commons Typologies in India
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About
Project brief
The project aimed to develop a sub-typology of community land resource use rights recognized in India. Landstack explored the definition of commons in India, where a lack of legal definition necessitates interpretations influenced by social, ecological, and legal factors. Ownership and access to these lands often fall under state government jurisdiction and are designated for community use.
The study included an analysis of the de jure and de facto realities of land management around commons, along with the nuanced legal frameworks that govern these areas.
Type of Project
Research/ study
Project area
Pan India
Thematic area
Forest/ land
Project status
Completed

About
Type of Project
Research/ study
Project area
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha
Thematic area
Forest/ land
Project status
Completed
Forest right act and the need for digitization
In recent years, there has been increasing recognition of the need to improve tenure security, especially for customary and unrecorded rights, through tenure documentation.
Digitization is seen as a strategic pathway for tenure formalization, offering efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency at a low cost, while also providing easy access to formal financing and public entitlements.

About
Type of Project
Research/ study
Project area
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha
Thematic area
Forest/ land
Project status
Completed
Forest right act and the need for digitization
In recent years, there has been increasing recognition of the need to improve tenure security, especially for customary and unrecorded rights, through tenure documentation.
Digitization is seen as a strategic pathway for tenure formalization, offering efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency at a low cost, while also providing easy access to formal financing and public entitlements.
Impact
The study developed a sub-typology of community land resource use rights recognized in India, focusing on enhancing the clarity and categorization of such rights. Suggestive framework was developed for understanding and estimating common land in India, using admin data and legal frameworks vis-à-vis RRI’s bundle of Rights category.
The study highlighted the importance of developing standardized data formats to improve the transparency and accountability of community land resource rights. This is particularly critical given the current status of CFR recognition and its integration into policy.
Through this study Landstack was able to analyze how different organizations and agencies interpret the concept of commons in India, especially in the absence of a common and legal definition by interpreting secondary review.

Contact
For further information on specefic aspects of the project, contact
Richa Joshi
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Arman Mohanty
Data, coding, cleaning, index, web application related information
Himanshu Baranwal
Community health, FGDs, COVID case data, reporting
Omkar Modak
Survey, relief work
Contact
For further information on specefic aspects of the project, contact
Rishabh Verma
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Richa Joshi
All project related details
Himanshu Baranwal
All project related details
