TY  - GEN
ED  - Television Trust for the Environment.
TI  - Lease of life
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Centre for Science and Environment
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Nepal
KW  - Land use
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Forest conservation
N2  - The magnificence of the Himalayas stands in stark contrast to the impoverished lives of its people. But the poorest of the poor are now in the forefront of a controversial new government scheme to reforest barren hillsides, and planting trees helps absorb CO2. The scheme has given Laxmi, a poor landless farmer a new lease of life. But wealthier villagers criticize the scheme insisting the land could be put to better use. Examines a scheme to reforest barren Himalayan hillsides and improve the lives of poor landless farmers
ER  -