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Part IV: Business and Society

erosion, loss of forest cover, and water logging) to the indirect

(fragmentation of land holdings, inadequate tenure rights, waste-

ful subsidies on agricultural inputs such as water and power). The

NEP’s prescription of adoption of “science-based and traditional

land-use practices” developed “through research and development”

for combating land degradation is too vague and general. Further,

land degradation is often the result of unsustainable and incompat-

ible land-use engineered by the market.

Forest and Wildlife Conservation

Forest and wildlife conservation has been the forte of the MoEF.

The NEP breaks new ground in pleading for “legal recognition of

the traditional rights of forest dwelling tribes” ...