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by Rituparna Hajra and Tuhin Ghosh<\/em><\/p>\n

A piece by Rituparna Hajra and DECCMA Co-PI Tuhin Ghosh entitled “Migration always good? There’s no straight answer<\/a>” has been published on the website thethirdpole.net<\/a>.\u00a0The Third Pole<\/a>\u00a0is a multilingual platform dedicated to promoting information and discussion about the Himalayan watershed and the rivers that originate there. The article explains how climate change is forcing people out of the Sundarbans, and 75% of those left behind depend on remittances, while they face labour shortages in their own farms.<\/p>\n

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As agricultural productivity flounders in the Sundarbans, unskilled labour is all the residents have to sell (image by Mike Prince as published on thethirdpole.net)<\/p><\/div>\n

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by Rituparna Hajra and Tuhin Ghosh A piece by Rituparna Hajra and DECCMA Co-PI Tuhin Ghosh entitled “Migration always good? There’s no straight answer” has been published on the website thethirdpole.net.\u00a0The Third Pole\u00a0is a multilingual platform dedicated to promoting information and discussion about the Himalayan watershed and the rivers that originate there. 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