Picture of the Week – 2.2.15 – The Corridor of Opportunity
By Tessa Bunney on 2 February 2015In the past, the bulk of products collected or caught from the wild were used for family consumption, but nowadays a substantial proportion of products are sold in the markets for cash, taking value from local areas and nature to feed urban populations and international markets.
The women of the Tai Dam village of Ban Na Mor sell local products gathered from the fields and forests or grown in their own gardens – anything from cucumbers to bamboo rats, pineapples to barbecued frogs.
Ban Na Mor market is ideally situated on route 13 which goes to the border with China allowing them to take advantage of the many Chinese tour buses and businessmen nostalgic for the wild food of their recent past.
