Oil palm, food security and adaptation among smallholder households in Papua New Guinea
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 West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. We examine changes in food security due to the rapid population growth in the presence of growing demand...
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| author | Koczberski, Gina Curry, George Bue, Veronica |
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| description | 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 West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. We examine changes in food security due to the rapid population growth in the presence of growing demand for land for oil palm production. Despite oil palm providing the major source of income for most migrant households, food crop gardening remains a primary livelihood activity, particularly for women, and especially so, during periods of low oil palm prices. Rising population and land pressures pose a threat to household food security and have implications for the supply of food to the rapidly growing urban population in the province. The paper begins by describing how household food security and access to land have changed over the past two decades. Then the paper examines how smallholder households are responding to shortages of garden land through the intensification of land use, intercropping immature oil palm with food crops and seeking access to land beyond the oil palm block. The paper also considers the role that research, agricultural extension and the milling companies can play in supporting strategies to promote food security among smallholders. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-431942019-02-19T05:35:22Z Oil palm, food security and adaptation among smallholder households in Papua New Guinea Koczberski, Gina Curry, George Bue, Veronica smallholder oil palm Papua New Guinea land intensification land use pressure food security 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 West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. We examine changes in food security due to the rapid population growth in the presence of growing demand for land for oil palm production. Despite oil palm providing the major source of income for most migrant households, food crop gardening remains a primary livelihood activity, particularly for women, and especially so, during periods of low oil palm prices. Rising population and land pressures pose a threat to household food security and have implications for the supply of food to the rapidly growing urban population in the province. The paper begins by describing how household food security and access to land have changed over the past two decades. Then the paper examines how smallholder households are responding to shortages of garden land through the intensification of land use, intercropping immature oil palm with food crops and seeking access to land beyond the oil palm block. The paper also considers the role that research, agricultural extension and the milling companies can play in supporting strategies to promote food security among smallholders. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43194 10.1111/j.1467-8373.2012.01491.x Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia fulltext |
| spellingShingle | smallholder oil palm Papua New Guinea land intensification land use pressure food security Koczberski, Gina Curry, George Bue, Veronica Oil palm, food security and adaptation among smallholder households in Papua New Guinea |
| title | Oil palm, food security and adaptation among smallholder households in Papua New Guinea |
| title_full | Oil palm, food security and adaptation among smallholder households in Papua New Guinea |
| title_fullStr | Oil palm, food security and adaptation among smallholder households in Papua New Guinea |
| title_full_unstemmed | Oil palm, food security and adaptation among smallholder households in Papua New Guinea |
| title_short | Oil palm, food security and adaptation among smallholder households in Papua New Guinea |
| title_sort | oil palm, food security and adaptation among smallholder households in papua new guinea |
| topic | smallholder oil palm Papua New Guinea land intensification land use pressure food security |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43194 |