PARALLEL TECHNICAL SESSION 1: RE-ENVISIONING JHUM AS AGROECOLOGICAL COMMONS: BIODIVERSITY, SEED SOVEREIGNTY & FOOD SECURITY
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TECHNICAL SESSION 1: RE-ENVISIONING JHUM AS AGROECOLOGICAL COMMONS: BIODIVERSITY, SEED SOVEREIGNTY & FOOD SECURITY | CONFERENCE HALL 1 |
Session Introduction & Context Setting
| Moderator: Mr Golan Suanzamung Naulak Earthtree |
Lead Presentation “Reframing Jhum: Evidence Based Pathways for Recognizing Shifting Cultivation as Regenerative Land Stewardship” | Prof David Mizoram University |
Panelist 1: Community & Traditional Practice Customary village rotational cycles, collective labour arrangements, and challenges from plantation crops. | Dr Alino Sumi Adjunct Lecturer, Flinders University |
Panelist 2: Women Farmers & Agrobiodiversity Indigenous mixed cropping, community seed banks, preserving millets/traditional pulses, and gendered roles in upland rainfed agriculture. | Ms Seno Tsuhah Nenterprise, Chizami |
Panelist 3: Policy, Agronomy & Transitions Integrating agroecological principles into and moving past monoculture cash-crop incentives. | Mr Monuhar Pegu Agroecology practitioner, Seed Conservator & Researcher |
Plenary Discussion & Synthesis Floor Q&A; synthesis of actionable points for the declaration drafting committee. | Open Floor Facilitated by Moderator & Anchor |
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