State land policies and shifting cultivation in Odisha, India (original) (raw)

Shifting cultivation policies: balancing environmental and social sustainability, 2017

Abstract

This chapter examines the processes through which hill slopes customarily used by ethnic communities in Odisha for shifting cultivation were taken over by the state as forest lands or revenue wastelands through deliberate policies aimed at bringing shifting cultivation to an end. The chapter covers both the colonial and post-colonial situations in Odisha that led to denial of the legitimacy of shifting cultivation, and ends with the impacts of these processes on shifting cultivators and landscapes. The failure to recognize the rights of shifting cultivation communities in the state to the hill slopes they traditionally cultivated has had serious implications on their access to land and livelihoods.

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