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Women from the Gadaba Indigenous community walk to collect vegetables and wood from the forest in Hatipakna village, Koraput district, Odisha. Representative image. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Indigenous communities missing in India’s report on access and benefit sharing [Commentary]

Alphonsa Jojan, Shyama Kuriakose 6 Jul 2026
A woman collects leaves from a forest in West Bengal. A GEF-backed project will engage more than 25,000 people, at least half of them women, in identifying, mapping and managing community-managed forests. Image by Sagnik Samanta via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Three states to pilot community-led forest management

Joydeep Gupta 11 Jun 2026

Global rift over plant treaty as key issues remain unresolved

Kundan Pandey 18 Jul 2025
The marshes of Tso Kar in the Changthang Plateau of Ladakh. The implementation of access and benefit sharing in remote regions is already compromised by the topography and scarcity of resources, and further at risk by the ABS regime. Image by Esha Joshi.

Access and benefit sharing regulations impinge on the rights of local communities [Commentary]

Esha Joshi, Neema P. Broome 16 Jun 2025

New regulations define access-benefit sharing from biological resources

Simrin Sirur 12 Jun 2025