Governments and regional agencies of the Pacific Islands are strengthening their
commitment to sustainable oceans management through proactive policies and programs …

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 …

Adaptation pathways are decision-making processes which sequence actions over time to
account for rapid change and future uncertainty. In developing economies pathways practice …

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

Oil palm smallholders are potential actors to be included in the global palm oil market.
Smallholder plantations account for 41.4% of total oil palm plantation areas and represents …

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 …

ABSTRACT Papua New Guinea (PNG) is one of many countries around the world where the
relationship between customary land tenure and economic development has been hotly …

The rapid growth of settlements in Pacific towns and cities has caused the supply of urban
land to become increasingly limited. 1 Much of the literature on urbanisation in the Pacific …

This paper examines the various ways in which migrant settlers have gained and
maintained access to land in the informal urban settlements of Wewak, the provincial capital …

The Papua New Guinea (PNG) landscape is punctuated by large-scale resource extraction
projects that have created concentrated nodes of hyper-intensive capital development that …