Nine new items added to MSP for minor forest produce scheme

Despite additions, quality parameters unavailable to state agencies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Orissa villagers protect forest, reap benefits

Staying legal, staying reasonable

A law can be effective only if it's reasonable

Centre approves MSP for minor forest produce

Decision will not apply to bamboo and tendu

Sapped for sal seed

Despite abundant produce, seed collecting Baigas earn little