Decentralised Forest Governance, Institutions and Livelihoods in Odisha: A Study of Evolution of Policy Process and Politics

This paper aims to provide an analytical glimpse of the evolution of forest policies in Odisha in the post-independence era, by unraveling the major stages of evolution of such policies. The paper also seeks to explore the issues of livelihoods, which has attained priority while formulating forest policies under the different political regimes in the State, and how this issue gradually evolved as a part of the pro-poor policy process in the state forestry sector of Odisha. [CESS Working Paper No. 127 RULNR Working Paper No. 21].