Author: K. WilsonPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
1975 Papua New Guinea Food Crops Conference Proceedings
Author: K. WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Food and Agriculture in Papua New Guinea
Author: R. Michael BourkePublisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921536616
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
Agriculture dominates the rural economy of Papua New Guinea (PNG). More than five million rural dwellers (80% of the population) earn a living from subsistence agriculture and selling crops in domestic and international markets. Many aspects of agriculture in PNG are described in this data-rich book. Topics include agricultural environments in which crops are grown; production of food crops, cash crops and animals; land use; soils; demography; migration; the macro-economic environment; gender issues; governance of agricultural institutions; and transport. The history of agriculture over the 50 000 years that PNG has been occupied by humans is summarised. Much of the information presented is not readily available within PNG. The book contains results of many new analyses, including a food budget for the entire nation. The text is supported by 165 tables and 215 maps and figures.
Proceedings of the Second Papua New Guinea Food Crops Conference
Author: R. M. BourkePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A New Guinea Bibliography
Author: Papua New Guinea National Bibliography
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Papua New Guinea National Report
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
List of Recent Additions
Author: Joint Bank-Fund LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The Impact of Volcanic Hazards at Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
Author: Russell J. BlongPublisher:
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Category : Volcanic activity prediction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Policy Making and Implementation
Author: Ronald James MayPublisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921536691
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
There is a vast literature on the principles of public administration and good governance, and no shortage of theoreticians, practitioners and donors eager to push for public sector reform, especially in less-developed countries. Papua New Guinea has had its share of public sector reforms, frequently under the influence of multinational agencies and aid donors. Yet there seems to be a general consensus, both within and outside Papua New Guinea, that policy making and implementation have fallen short of expectations, that there has been a failure to achieve 'good governance'. This volume, which brings together a number of Papua New Guinean and Australian-based scholars and practitioners with deep familiarity of policy making in Papua New Guinea, examines the record of policy making and implementation in Papua New Guinea since independence. It reviews the history of public sector reform in Papua New Guinea, and provides case studies of policy making and implementation in a number of areas, including the economy, agriculture, mineral development, health, education, lands, environment, forestry, decentralization, law and order, defence, women and foreign affairs, privatization, and AIDS. Policy is continuously evolving, but this study documents the processes of policy making and implementation over a number of years, with the hope that a better understanding of past successes and failures will contribute to improved governance in the future.
Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Author: Jack GolsonPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760461164
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Kuk is a settlement at c. 1600 m altitude in the upper Wahgi Valley of the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, near Mount Hagen, the provincial capital. The site forms part of the highland spine that runs for more than 2500 km from the western head of the island of New Guinea to the end of its eastern tail. Until the early 1930s, when the region was first explored by European outsiders, it was thought to be a single, uninhabited mountain chain. Instead, it was found to be a complex area of valleys and basins inhabited by large populations of people and pigs, supported by the intensive cultivation of the tropical American sweet potato on the slopes above swampy valley bottoms. With the end of World War II, the area, with others, became a focus for the development of coffee and tea plantations, of which the establishment of Kuk Research Station was a result. Large-scale drainage of the swamps produced abundant evidence in the form of stone axes and preserved wooden digging sticks and spades for their past use in cultivation. Investigations in 1966 at a tea plantation in the upper Wahgi Valley by a small team from The Australian National University yielded a date of over 2000 years ago for a wooden stick collected from the bottom of a prehistoric ditch. The establishment of Kuk Research Station a few kilometres away shortly afterwards provided an ideal opportunity for a research project.