Earning a Living in PNG: From Subsistence to a Cash Economy

Curry, George; Koczberski, Gina; Lummani, Joachim; Ryan, Sean; Bue, Veronica

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“…Consumption of store foods fell markedly with almost half (48%) of families reporting that they rarely purchased store foods. Expenditure on health and education also decreased with 87% of families reported cutting back on medical services in the initial infestation period (Curry et al, 2012b;p. 166), and 81% of families with school age children said they were having difficulties paying school fees.…”

Section: Livelihood Responses To Cpbmentioning

confidence: 93%

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A bridge too far? The influence of socio-cultural values on the adaptation responses of smallholders to a devastating pest outbreak in cocoa

Curry

Koczberski

Lummani

et al. 2015

Global Environmental Change

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A B S T R A C TThe influence of socio-cultural factors on the adaptive capacity, resilience and trade-offs in decisionmaking of households and communities is receiving growing scholarly attention. In many partly transformed societies, where the market economy is not well developed, livelihood practices are heavily structured by kinship and indigenous social and economic values. Farm investment decisions and incentives to produce agricultural commodities are shaped by a host of considerations in addition to market imperatives like profit. In one such partly transformed society in East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, we examine the adaptation decisions of smallholders in response to the drastic drop of yield in their cocoa plots caused by the sudden outbreak of Cocoa Pod Borer. To explain why the impact of the pest has been so great we examine the interconnections between household responses, the local sociocultural and economic context of smallholder commodity crop production and the wider institutional environment in which household choices and decisions are made. We argue that the significant lifestyle changes and labour intensive farming methods required for the effective control of Cocoa Pod Borer are incompatible with existing smallholder farming systems, values and livelihoods. To adopt a high input cropping system requires more than a technical fix and some training; it also requires abandoning a 'way of life' that provides status, identity and a moral order, and which is therefore highly resistant to change. The paper highlights the enduring influence and significance of local, culturally-specific beliefs and socioeconomic values and their influence on how individuals and communities make adaptation decisions.

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Section: Livelihood Responses To Cpbmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Livelihood activities that were curtailed included village trade stores and small transport businesses that depended on patronage from the village community. Many village stores closed and remaining ones struggled to remain viable (Curry et al, 2012b).…”

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confidence: 99%

A bridge too far? The influence of socio-cultural values on the adaptation responses of smallholders to a devastating pest outbreak in cocoa

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Koczberski

Lummani

et al. 2015

Global Environmental Change

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“…Local marketing of garden foods provides women with an additional income source to oil palm. Food crops for local marketing are cultivated alongside those for household consumption, and it is common for smallholders to establish additional gardens of high‐value crops such as peanuts, sweet potato and tobacco (Curry et al ., : 174). Fruits such as pineapples ( Ananas comosus ), pawpaw ( Carica papaya ), watermelon ( Citrullus lanatus ), banana ( Musa cvs.)…”

Section: Migration Land and Garden Food Productionmentioning

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Oil palm, food security and adaptation among smallholder households in Papua New Guinea

Koczberski

Curry

Bue

2012

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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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“…We reveal the interconnections between a diverse range of economic activities, both formal and informal (Cross 2010;Krige 2011). In doing so, we contribute to a substantial body of literature by anthropologists and human geographers that examines the interactions between various modes of economic activity in PNG, and which emphasises the intimate entangling of 'social' and 'economic' concerns (Akin and Robbins 1999;Bourke and Harwood 2009;Brookfield 1969;Carrier and Carrier 1989;Curry 2003;Curry et al 2012;Gregory 1982;Macintyre 2011;McCormack and Barclay 2013).…”

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confidence: 94%

Transforming communicative spaces: the rhythm of gender in meetings in rural Solomon Islands

Dyer¹

2018

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Earning a Living in PNG: From Subsistence to a Cash Economy

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

A bridge too far? The influence of socio-cultural values on the adaptation responses of smallholders to a devastating pest outbreak in cocoa

A bridge too far? The influence of socio-cultural values on the adaptation responses of smallholders to a devastating pest outbreak in cocoa

Oil palm, food security and adaptation among smallholder households in Papua New Guinea

Transforming communicative spaces: the rhythm of gender in meetings in rural Solomon Islands

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