Finding Common Ground: relational concepts of land tenure and economy in the oil palm frontier of Papua New Guinea

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Finding Common Ground: relational concepts of land tenure and economy in the oil palm frontier of Papua New Guinea

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 land for agricultural development. This paper examines one aspect of these changes, namely the gifting and selling of custom...

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Main Authors:	Curry, George, Koczberski, Gina
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers) 2009
Subjects:	Papua New Guinea relational concepts of economy social embeddedness land tenure migration and ethnicity
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19613

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