| Effective Mapping Protocol for Forest Rights Mapping in India Published by: Center For Land Governance Contributors: Cadasta Foundation, FES, NRMC Pages: 4 Right Mapping Protocol for Forest Rights Mapping in India presents an insights from a Collaborative Field Pilot in Chhatisgarh and Odisha. While the advances of geospatial technology, tools and platforms simultaneously expand opportunities, the complexities of India’s plural land tenure systems and evolving legal, social, cultural and ecological concerns, demands local adaptations and strategic localization. Growing recognitions of ethics, data privacy, free and prior informed consent as well as human rights issues associated with land tenure digitization and mapping, more so in forest rights context, implicate their strategic embedding to address inevitable sustainability, participation and inclusion. Adequate due diligence in surveying and mapping of forest rights is there critical; particularly understanding and analysis of role of technology – both as tools and in processes, merit close attention
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