MFP Sustains 275 million people

Nine new items added to MSP for minor forest produce scheme

Despite additions, quality parameters unavailable to state agencies

A new project aims to document India’s customary laws

Documenting customary laws is a step towards community-led conservation

A great sweep

Feisty women hill broom gatherers force the forest department to relent in a Orissa village

Himachal's being robbed of its medicinal herbs

Himachal's valleys are being robbed off their natural gift -- medicinal herbs

Power transfer

MFP management in TN tribals' hands

Urbanisation, low profitability: Why prices of tamarind leaves in Andhra Pradesh have rocketed

Government should come up with ways to make tamarind cultivation lucrative

Centre again revisits minimum support prices of key minor forest produce  

Latest guidelines have fixed MSPs that favour traders rather than the forest gatherers

Scheme for tribalfolk

Chocolate's sal connection

Richard Mahapatra reveals how a chocolate supports people in forests

Inadequate compensation of villagers for ecosystem services weakens conservation efforts

Situation of villagers in Palampur village, Himachal Pradesh is a good case study 

Access granted

Individual forest rights: How residents of this Sundargarh tribal village fight to protect their natural resources

Despite living on their land for years, some of the villagers were denied land titles 

More work, less pay

Some MFP items were nationalised to get people fair deal; it was of no help

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Paper question

Proposed pulp and paper plant revives debate on private access to degraded forestland

Great depression of lac

Biggest producer Jharkhand worst hit—and clueless

Row in Madhya Pradesh

Sal and siali leaves sustaining tribal Orissa

GST of 18% on tendu leaves: how it will impact tribals

Many tribals in central India depend of tendu leaf collection for subsistence

Lac melts

Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall hit lac production in India

Collectors turn entrepreneurs

A forest official helps tribals add value to forest produce and earn more

Too costly to grow

High input cost and erratic weather take toll

Elephantine block

A wall to keep elephants at bay ends up alienating people in an Uttarakhand village

A protest to demand rights over forests