Who said Jhumias are the villains?
IFP Bureau11 Feb 2021
IFP Editorial: Asking the hill people to do away with the practice of jhum cultivation is like asking them to give up their traditional lifestyle and culture.
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A home for the holidays
IFP Bureau19 Jan 2021
IFP Editorial: While government ministers and experts shout from the mountain-top that the practice of jhum is leading to land degradation and soil erosion, nothing much have been done on the ground.
Farmers in hills bear the brunt of climate change
Tamenglong Correspondent31 Dec 2020
Several farmers in the hill district of Tamenglong lament that they could not burn up the cutting of their jhum fields as rainfall hit the region very early this year.
Jhum Cultivation – A relook at tradition and modern arguments
Mordecai Panmei13 Dec 2020
What is it about jhum cultivation that it has impacted the tribal Zeliangrong community in India? Mordecai Panmei throws light on the age-old traditional farming method
Logic of environmental sustainability
IFP Bureau4 Jun 2020
Jhum cultivation had been blamed for contributing to the deteriorating climate change in the world without taking into consideration how this method had immensely benefited the communities.
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