Sal leaf trade has enormous potential but suffers abject neglect

Whether bamboo is a grass or a tree is a question of survival for many

Falling profits discourage silk farmers

Return to the basics: create jobs in the hinterland

Forest histories have more often than not remained aloof from more broad-based economic histories of agrarian communities. As a result, narratives of the forest economy have focused almost entirely on the process offorest settlement. This article focuses on regional processes of territorialisation associated with revenue and forest settlement in the context of the Kolli Hills.

Conflicts over natural resource access goes back a long way in history ever since national parks became the best insitu method of protecting endangered biodiversity and received legal sanction all over the globe.

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

The abstract noun development is firmly a part of the public relations language governments use today. But after a recent ordinance passed by the Orissa government, that levies a forest development tax on minor forest produce, its meaning assumes a di

The Orissa government has slapped a forest development tax on three minor forest produce items tendu leaf, timber and bamboo. Seen as a countermeasure to the March 2001 Orissa High Court order that declared the imposition of state sales tax on tendu ill

MFP management in TN tribals hands

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