Common pool resources in land, defined as resources to which varying degrees of access by local communities exists, constitute a considerable part of the geographical area of India. Estimates which take account of the varying degree of access provided by the existence of multiple rights to different kinds of land place the figure at about 70 million hectares out of a land area of 328 million hectares. Of this, 25 million hectares are estimated to lie within forest department owned and managed land and the rest on other land, under the jurisdiction of the revenue department and village and other local governing bodies...