Does secured forest land tenure enhance forest dwellers' food security? Empirical evidence from West Bengal, India

IF 1.1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Forests, Trees and Livelihoods Pub Date : 2023-05-28 DOI:10.1080/14728028.2023.2217838

Sandip Chand, B. Behera

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Under the Forest Rights Act 2006, the government of India has recognised the Individual Forest Rights (IFR) of forest dwellers that formalise the de jure land tenure over forest land. This is expected to incentivise owners to invest and take better care of their forest land which, in turn, is assumed to improve households’ income and financial access and thereby reduce their food insecurity. Using the primary data collected from 300 IFR beneficiary households in Bankura district of the Indian state of West Bengal and the ordinal logistic regression model, this paper identifies and analyses the determinant factors influencing household food insecurity. Results show that larger IFR land size areas, higher education levels of the household head, and higher annual income are associated with a significant reduction in food insecurity. On the contrary, larger household sizes, higher dependency ratios, and the occurrence of crop damage are associated with a highly significant increase in food insecurity. Hence, it is suggested that in order to help reduce households’ food insecurity among forest dwellers in the state, the assignment of IFR land area of sufficient size to forest dwellers’ households may further be encouraged.

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有保障的林地权属是否能提高森林居民的粮食安全?来自印度西孟加拉邦的经验证据

根据《2006年森林权利法案》，印度政府承认森林居民的个人森林权利(IFR)，使森林土地的法定土地所有权正规化。预计这将激励所有者投资并更好地照顾他们的林地，这反过来又被认为可以改善家庭收入和财政渠道，从而减少他们的粮食不安全状况。本文利用从印度西孟加拉邦班库拉地区300户IFR受益家庭收集的原始数据和有序logistic回归模型，识别并分析了影响家庭粮食不安全的决定因素。结果表明，较大的IFR土地面积、户主较高的教育水平和较高的年收入与粮食不安全状况的显著减少有关。相反，更大的家庭规模、更高的抚养比率和作物受损的发生与粮食不安全的显著增加有关。因此，建议为帮助减少该邦森林居民家庭的粮食不安全，可进一步鼓励向森林居民家庭分配足够规模的IFR土地面积。

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Forests, Trees and Livelihoods Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Forestry

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