Gentle Reminder for Today's ABM Townhall: "Organizing the Forest Economy with Prof. Ashwini Chhatre"
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Dear Friends,
I am excited to host the upcoming ABM Townhall on “Organizing the Forest Economy” with Prof. Ashwini Chhatre tonight.
“Organizing the forest economy”, at first blush, brings in a wall of resistance, or might sound like a paradoxical statement (how can you organize forest economy when forest as an entity is unorganized), especially, when the intent is spelt out as, in Prof. Ashwini’s words, “make forest economy visible, one small step at a time”.
However, Prof. Ashwini’s interesting journey carries enough seeds of wilderness that makes me open to possibilities.
”Between my BA in Economics from University of Delhi in 1990 and the start of my PhD at Duke, I spent 11 years working in different parts of India, mostly as a community organizer and social activist working on issues related to natural resources like land, forests, and water.”
We still don’t have clarity about what constitutes the definition of a forest in India. While international organisations like Global Forest Watch (GFW) have reported that India lost approximately 23,300 square kilometres of tree cover between 2001 and 2023, the government claims a marginal increase in forest cover.
In his radical forest futures paper, Ashwini envisions that, based on secure tenure, community based enterprises will be able to manage forests sustainably with support from industry and technology partners under the watchful eye of the forest dept.
Is this vision feasible? How do we implement this vision, while staying true to the intent? This will be the subject of ABM Townhall tonight.
P.S. This will be Members-Only event. ABM Members can RSVP here
Gentle Reminder for Today's ABM Townhall: "Organizing the Forest Economy with Prof. Ashwini Chhatre"
Gentle Reminder for Today's ABM Townhall: "Organizing the Forest Economy with Prof. Ashwini Chhatre"
Gentle Reminder for Today's ABM Townhall: "Organizing the Forest Economy with Prof. Ashwini Chhatre"
Hello!! My name is Venky and I thank you for reading Agribusiness Matters, an endeavor to discover systems thinking in the real world - crumbling food and agriculture systems in an age of runaway Climate Change. If you like what you see, I encourage you to subscribe and receive exclusive perks - invitations to join ABM Townhalls, special discounts on ABM Publications, Global Agritech 101, 201 cohort courses, and more.
Dear Friends,
I am excited to host the upcoming ABM Townhall on “Organizing the Forest Economy” with Prof. Ashwini Chhatre tonight.
“Organizing the forest economy”, at first blush, brings in a wall of resistance, or might sound like a paradoxical statement (how can you organize forest economy when forest as an entity is unorganized), especially, when the intent is spelt out as, in Prof. Ashwini’s words, “make forest economy visible, one small step at a time”.
However, Prof. Ashwini’s interesting journey carries enough seeds of wilderness that makes me open to possibilities.
”Between my BA in Economics from University of Delhi in 1990 and the start of my PhD at Duke, I spent 11 years working in different parts of India, mostly as a community organizer and social activist working on issues related to natural resources like land, forests, and water.”
We still don’t have clarity about what constitutes the definition of a forest in India. While international organisations like Global Forest Watch (GFW) have reported that India lost approximately 23,300 square kilometres of tree cover between 2001 and 2023, the government claims a marginal increase in forest cover.
In his radical forest futures paper, Ashwini envisions that, based on secure tenure, community based enterprises will be able to manage forests sustainably with support from industry and technology partners under the watchful eye of the forest dept.
Is this vision feasible? How do we implement this vision, while staying true to the intent? This will be the subject of ABM Townhall tonight.
P.S. This will be Members-Only event. ABM Members can RSVP here
Cheers
Venky