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New multimedia exhibition: Jhum, Shifting cultivation and customary tenure in the Naga Hills of Myanmar (11-15 November, Bern)

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Shifting cultivation is a traditional agriculture system of many upland Indigenous Peoples in the Global South. Practised by approximately 250 million people globally, the farming system is widely misunderstood as a cause of deforestation and carbon emissions. Yet, research over the past decades has established the sustainability of shifting cultivation as an agricultural practice.


In the mountains of Northwest Myanmar, the Indigenous Naga people have practised shifting cultivation (known locally as Jhum) for millennia. The Center for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, together with the local indigenous organisation RRtIP, have been conducting research into shifting cultivation and indigenous land governance systems across the Naga Hills.


This multi-media exhibition will introduce the traditional agricultural systems

and highlight the sustainability and multifunctional nature of the Naga Jhum.

11–15 November 2024: Mon: 13:00–18:00 / Tue-Fri: 9:00–18:00

From 11:30–13:30 Tuesday-Friday, there will be representatives from CDE and RRtIP

at the exhibition space to answer questions.



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