There are many communities here that have extremely uncertain land situations. They may have been living here for 20 or 30 years, but new national parks and forest reserves keep getting established, the laws are unclear, and generally people's futures are just up in the air. You can see it in people's eyes when we are talking to them. They just don't know if they might get kicked out of their homes tomorrow. But a good news  story: one of the villages we visited has recently struck an agreement with the local authorities to implement agroforestry plots on forest reserve land. The first photo shows a young agroforestry plot started by one farmer. This has rattan,  fish tail palm, fan palm and several other species that are at the same time forest species but also can help families feed themselves and make a living. The owner of the plot is eating and selling food products as well as shingles made from palm leaves. The forest dept took notice, and after some negotiation, has agreed to have villagers try out these innovations on about 3 hectares of reserve land. The second photo shows part of that area where this will soon be happening. It's the classic win-win scenario. Farmers get to feed and cloth their families, and the park gets greener, better protected land.