Addressing problems of forced relocation of peasants onto marginal lands

Relocated peasants and refugees can make a large impact on local forest resources for housing materials and fuelwood needs. Long-term refugee camps have often negatively impacted the environment to the point of desertification.

1. Agroforestry projects be enacted near refugee camps so as to save the local environment from complete devastation.

1. Studying consequences of migration
2. Monitoring desertification
3. Controlling immigration
4. Building demographic factors into local programmes for sustainable development
5. Addressing problems of social marginalization
6. Addressing problems of cultivation of marginal agricultural land
7. Addressing environmental devastation

1. Training demographers and ecologists in population-environment links
2. Intervening in personal crises
3. Exposing violation of land rights of a people
4. Developing drought preparedness for environmental refugees

1. Preventing tropical deforestation
2. Developing special programmes on migration causing or caused by environmental change
3. Asserting customary resource rights of marginalized peoples

1. Making restitution of peasant landholdings

1. Developing presently unusable farming land

1. Social neglect
2. Ownership as a basis for land allocation
3. Neglect of environmental consequences of government policies
4. Negative ecological impact of overpopulation
5. Limited availability of land for low-income and disadvantaged groups
6. Homelessness
7. Forced relocation of peasants onto marginal lands
8. Environmental refugees
9. Demoralizing images of rural community identity

1. Refugee
2. Problem
3. Marginalization
4. Land
5. Forced