Living off leaves

Sal leaf trade has enormous potential but suffers abject neglect

Uncertain future

Villages in the sanctuary

Role models

Two Madhya Pradesh villages break free of debts, Naxalites

The humble gourd is falling out of favour

Gourd has sculpted the culture and traditions of rural India for ages 

How bamboo was liberated

Lost in interpretation - Maharashtra

Bamboo sale for bamboo rights

A Maharashtra village demands rights to transport and sell forest produce

Sour and sweet - Gujarat

High-risk trade

MFP is a renewable, reliable source of income, but faces many threats

Bamboo now a minor forest produce

Meghalaya redefines forest

Experts fear the new definition may open up large tracts of forest for non-forest use

No transparency - Andhra Pradesh

Among the non-believers

A forester’s  perspective on green governance

Maharashtra muddies bamboo rights

Activists say forest department trying to dilute Forest Rights Act

Village bullied for using its forest

Forest department registers offence against a gram sabha for felling bamboo clusters

Bamboo still a distant dream

No village in Maharashtra other than Mendha Lekha has been able to access bamboo

Potato shield for bamboo

Coatings of potato starch can protect bamboo shoots from microbes and browning

Price tag for tendu, bamboo

Government struggles to calculate cost of forest produce

‘State has tendu trade right’

Expert panel report denies forest dwellers this lucrative right

Give us 18 sq km

Losers again

Letters

Letters

Concern over the government’s moves to dilute the requirement for Gram Sabha consent in violation of the Forest Right’s Act (FRA)

Class room