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Ajit Menon et al., « "Forests", Agrarian landscapes and public policies in the Central Western Ghats of South India », HAL-SHS : géographie, ID : 10670/1.ng7yci
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Decentralization policies around forest management in developing countries such as India have received a large amount of attention in the recent past. But invariability analysis has been limited to the specificities of policies and to what extent they have provided forest produce benefits or not to forest-dependent communities. Public policies around forests must be contextualized and analysed in abroader historical context that attempts to understand what 'forests" mean to local communities in their segmented forms and how such policies have been part of a wider process of transformation of the agrarian landscape. This paper based on on-going research in three states of the Western Ghats of South India examines the historical transformation of the agrarian landscape and how recent public policies in the name of decentralization often fall short not only in their implementation but also in their vision. Hence, while decentralized forest management might open up spaces for communities to adress some of their forest needs in particular contexts, they are as likely to marginalize other needs in the process of redefining the agrarian landscape in the name of environemental management.