The expansion of oil palm cultivation in the A sia–P acific region in the past half century has
engendered a major agro‐environmental transformation with significant implications for rural …

Papua New Guinea is home to> 10% of the world's languages and rich and varied
biocultural knowledge, but the future of this diversity remains unclear. We measured …

An unprecedented increase in oil palm developments may be underway in Papua New
Guinea (PNG) through controversial “special agricultural and business leases”(SABLs) …

The influence of socio-cultural factors on the adaptive capacity, resilience and trade-offs in
decision-making of households and communities is receiving growing scholarly attention. In …

Policies designed to reduce land-based carbon emissions require a good understanding of
the complex connections between state-sanctioned concessions, forest conversion, informal …

Fresh food markets have been a fixture of the social and economic landscape of urban and
rural PNG since colonial times. They were often the first points of engagement with the …

In the oil palm frontier regions of West New Britain and Oro provinces, Papua New Guinea,
customary land tenure arrangements are changing in response to the growing demand for …

This paper examines the recent history of settlement and conflict on Guadalcanal in
Solomon Islands and the corollary emergence of competing 'settler'and 'landowner'identity …

A relatively neglected area of research on agrarian and economic change is the role of
indigenous concepts of labour value in the transition from subsistence to market production …

This paper is concerned with food security and access to land for food crop gardening
among first and second generation migrant oil palm producers in W est N ew B ritain P …