Loose Fruit Mamas: Creating Incentives for Smallholder Women in Oil Palm Production in Papua New Guinea

Loose Fruit Mamas: Creating Incentives for Smallholder Women in Oil Palm Production in Papua New Guinea

This paper presents a case study of the introduction of a more gender equitable payment scheme for oil palm smallholders in Papua New Guinea. Women are now paid separately from their husbands for their work on family oil palm plots thereby increasing the economic incentives for women to commit labor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Koczberski, Gina
Format: Journal Article
Published: Pergamon 2007
Subjects:
labor
smallholder commodity production
Papua New Guinea
contract farming
gender
household models
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44420

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44420

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