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Innovations in common land development in India

Year of publication 2012

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Several studies highlight the wide-ranging contributions of common lands to the village economy – ranging from food, fodder and timber to benefit flows to farming systems, animal husbandry, to ecological services of resource conservation, recharge of ground water and sustainability of agro-ecological systems. The range of direct and indirect contributions from CPRs, however, has a limited quantification of benefits from commons due to the invisibility and inability to monitor and measure the flows emanating from commons.

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