Making a living: Land pressures and changing livelihood strategies among oil palm settlers in Papua New Guinea
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 a...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-96662019-05-23T05:54:13Z Making a living: Land pressures and changing livelihood strategies among oil palm settlers in Papua New Guinea Koczberski, Gina Curry, George Melanesia Rural development policy Income diversification Smallholder production Agricultural change 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. 2005 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9666 10.1016/j.agsy.2005.06.014 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Melanesia Rural development policy Income diversification Smallholder production Agricultural change Koczberski, Gina Curry, George Making a living: Land pressures and changing livelihood strategies among oil palm settlers in Papua New Guinea |
| title | Making a living: Land pressures and changing livelihood strategies among oil palm settlers in Papua New Guinea |
| title_full | Making a living: Land pressures and changing livelihood strategies among oil palm settlers in Papua New Guinea |
| title_fullStr | Making a living: Land pressures and changing livelihood strategies among oil palm settlers in Papua New Guinea |
| title_full_unstemmed | Making a living: Land pressures and changing livelihood strategies among oil palm settlers in Papua New Guinea |
| title_short | Making a living: Land pressures and changing livelihood strategies among oil palm settlers in Papua New Guinea |
| title_sort | making a living: land pressures and changing livelihood strategies among oil palm settlers in papua new guinea |
| topic | Melanesia Rural development policy Income diversification Smallholder production Agricultural change |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9666 |