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Author : R. M. Bourke
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Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Production Patterns of 180 Economic Crops in Papua New Guinea written by R. M. Bourke and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Michael Bourke
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921536616
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Food and Agriculture in Papua New Guinea written by R. Michael Bourke and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Jack Golson
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760461164
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea written by Jack Golson and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Tim Denham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351115286
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Tracing Early Agriculture in the Highlands of New Guinea written by Tim Denham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, historical narratives chart how people created forms of agriculture in the highlands of New Guinea and how these practices were transformed through time. The intention is twofold: to clearly establish New Guinea as a region of early agricultural development and plant domestication; and, to develop a contingent, practice-based interpretation of early agriculture that has broader application to other regions of the world. The multi-disciplinary record from the highlands has the potential to challenge and change long held assumptions regarding early agriculture globally, which are usually based on domestication. Early agriculture in the highlands is charted by an exposition of the practices of plant exploitation and cultivation. Practices are ontologically prior because they ultimately produce the phenotypic and genotypic changes in plant species characterised as domestication, as well as the social and environmental transformations associated with agriculture. They are also methodologically prior because they emplace plants in specific historico-geographic contexts.
Author : Simon Haberle
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921666811
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Altered Ecologies written by Simon Haberle and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a star chart this volume orientates the reader to the key issues and debates in Pacific and Australasian biogeography, palaeoecology and human ecology. A feature of this collection is the diversity of approaches ranging from interpretation of the biogeographic significance of plant and animal distributional patterns, pollen analysis from peats and lake sediments to discern Quaternary climate change, explanation of the patterns of faunal extinction events, the interplay of fire on landscape evolution, and models of the environmental consequences of human settlement patterns. The diversity of approaches, geographic scope and academic rigor are a fitting tribute to the enormous contributions of Geoff Hope. As made apparent in this volume, Hope pioneered multidisciplinary understanding of the history and impacts of human cultures in the Australia- Pacific region, arguably the globe's premier model systems for understanding the consequences of humans colonization on ecological systems. The distinguished scholars who have contributed to this volume also demonstrate Hope's enduring contribution as an inspirational research leader, collaborator and mentor. Terra Australis leave no doubt that history matters, not only for land management, but more importantly, in alerting settler and indigenous societies alike to their past ecological impacts and future environmental trajectories.
Author : Marc Oxenham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131753400X
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands written by Marc Oxenham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands has seen enormous progress. This new and exciting research is synthesised, contextualised and expanded upon in The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. The volume is divided into two broad sections, one dealing with mainland and island Southeast Asia, and a second section dealing with the Pacific islands. A multi-scalar approach is employed to the bio-social dimensions of Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands with contributions alternating between region and/or site specific scales of operation to the individual or personal scale. The more personal level of osteobiographies enriches the understanding of the lived experience in past communities. Including a number of contributions from sub-disciplinary approaches tangential to bioarchaeology the book provides a broad theoretical and methodological approach. Providing new information on the globally relevant topics of farming, population mobility, subsistence and health, no other volume provides such a range of coverage on these important themes.
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Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Papua New Guinea Agriculture, Issues and Options written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. L. Tan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Sweetpotato and Cassava written by S. L. Tan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary B. Taylor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Breadfruit Research and Development written by Mary B. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : I. M. Wood
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Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book New Crops, New Products: Principles and case studies written by I. M. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Pacific Economic Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. L. Stevens
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Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book South Pacific Indigenous Nuts written by M. L. Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I: Overview of the Resources Overview of resource potential for indigenous nut prooduction in the South Pacific; Melanesian arboricultue: historical perspectives with emphasis on the genus Canarium; Edible indigenous nuts in Papua New Guinea; Indigenous nut trees in Vanuatu: ethnobotany and variability; What we don't know about indigenous nuts in Melanesia; Part II: Developments in the region Canarium nut and oil marketing in Solomon Islands; marketing indigenous nuts in Vanuatu - a private enterprise perspecctive; The role of galip nut (Canarium indicum) in forest conservation in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea; GAlip (Canarium indicum) as a cash crop in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea: experiences of the kandrian Gloucester Integrated Development project; Production and market development of Okary nuts (Terminalia kaernbachii) on the Managalas Plateau in Paua New Guinea; Okari Ecoenterprises: a snapshot of participatory rural development: domestic market development of okari nuts (Terminalia kaernbachii) in Papua New Guinea; Conservation-based enterprises: business development and product marketing; Part III: Aspects of developing the resource: A. production aspects: The Canarium nut - research and development at the Lowlands Agricultural Experiment Station, keravat, Papua New Guinea; Research and devellopment on edible nut tree crops in Solomon Islands; The status of Canarium as forest timber trees in solomon Islands; B. Processing: Processing of galip (Canarium indicum) in Papua New Guinea; Commercial manufacture and use of mechanical crakers of Canarium and related nuts in Vanuatu; C. Marketing: Business associations can held to increase your profits; Are there to be made from tourism sales of value-added nuts and spices?; D. Lessons from elsewhere: History and current of pili nut (Canarium ovatum) production in the Philippines; Macadamia: a tropical nut industry example; Part IV: Country priorities for research and development; Part V: Bibliography of South Pacific indigenous nuts.
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Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Forests, Trees and Livelihoods written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Anderson
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ISBN 13 : 9781925333008
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Land and Livelihoods in Papua New Guinea written by Tim Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John A. Dixon
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9789251046272
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Farming Systems and Poverty written by John A. Dixon and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.
Author : R. M. Bourke
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Total Pages : 916 pages
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Download or read book Food Security for Papua New Guinea written by R. M. Bourke and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have adequate food security when households have the capacity to access sufficient food at all times, either through self-production or through market purchases. Overall, food security is high in PNG as most rural people have access to land and can grow most of their food requirements. The food security situation is considerably better in PNG now than it was before the Pacific war. This is because high-yield staple crops have been adopted and people have access to cash income that can be used to purchase food. The adoption of new staple crops provided a once-off benefit, however, this phase is now ending in PNG. This proceedings contains the 120 papers presented at the Papua New Guinea Food and Nutrition 2000 Conference held at the PNG University of Technology in Lae from 26-30 June 2000.
Author : James W. Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108882730
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Biodemography of Subsistence Farming written by James W. Wood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewing the subsistence farm as primarily a 'demographic enterprise' to create and support a family, this book offers an integrated view of the demography and ecology of preindustrial farming. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, it examines how traditional farming practices interact with demographic processes such as childbearing, death, and family formation. It includes topics such as household nutrition, physiological work capacity, health and resistance to infectious diseases, as well as reproductive performance and mortality. The book argues that the farming household is the most informative scale at which to study the biodemography and physiological ecology of preindustrial, non-commercial agriculture. It offers a balanced appraisal of the farming system, considering its strengths and limitations, as well as the implications of viewing it as a 'demographic enterprise' rather than an economic one. A valuable resource for graduate students and researchers in biological and physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, natural resource management, agriculture and ecology.
