Women Empowerment is a Collateral Advantage!
When talking about re-using and re-cycling; how can one actually forget the many waste lands of the Indian topography. The old belief needs to absolve. In a greener economy, everything needs to be used up to its optimum, even that what is believed to be unusable.
The community based joint forest management is basically where local village or self-help group communities promote, encourage, and promote forest management with the help of village locals and especially local women in different villages of the rural areas. So, the waste lands are generally lying vacant and unused. With the help of CBJFM, these lands are converted to land used for Agro-forestry. Women, in particular, are encouraged to carry out Agroforestry on such lands. This in turn uplifts them and their families economically.
There are many self-help groups and communities that indirectly encourage farming and thereby achieving two-fold results of bringing in an environmental balance and simultaneously boosting the monetary status of the women of the villages and their families.
An initiative so impactful was carried out by a Self-Help group from one of the villages from Patan District of Gujarat which has empowered and encouraged the unemployed and aided in expanding the forest reserves adding up to environment sustainability.