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dc.contributor.authorKoczberski, Gina
dc.contributor.authorCurry, George
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:14:14Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:14:14Z
dc.date.created2008-11-12T23:25:18Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationKoczberski, Gina and Curry, George N. 2005. Making a living: Land pressures and changing livelihood strategies among oil palm settlers in Papua New Guinea. Agricultural Systems. 85 (3): 324-339.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9666
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.agsy.2005.06.014
dc.description.abstract

Since the establishment of oil palm land settlement schemes (LSSs) in West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, the settler population has increased significantly as secondgeneration settlers marry and raise families on their parents blocks. We explore how settlers are responding to demographic and socio-economic change in an environment in which opportunities for land-use change are limited. In the context of rising population pressure, LSS smallholders are developing innovative livelihood strategies by pursuing non-farm income sources, increasing food production, acquiring additional land and migration. The type of migration or land accumulation strategy depends on household access to various resources, especially social and kinship networks, and capital. Agricultural extension and rural development policies have not yet responded to this socio-agronomic transformation. We conclude that economic diversification amongst smallholders creates new opportunities for the oil palm industry to formulate more innovative and sustainable policies that strengthen the oil palm industry in PNG while facilitating broad-based rural development.

dc.subjectMelanesia
dc.subjectRural development policy
dc.subjectIncome diversification
dc.subjectSmallholder production
dc.subjectAgricultural change
dc.titleMaking a living: Land pressures and changing livelihood strategies among oil palm settlers in Papua New Guinea
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume85
dcterms.source.startPage324
dcterms.source.endPage339
dcterms.source.titleAgricultural Systems
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Copyright 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

curtin.departmentDepartment of Social Sciences
curtin.identifierEPR-991
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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