Diffusing Risk and Building Resilience through Innovation: Reciprocal Exchange Relationships, Livelihood Vulnerability and Food Security amongst Smallholder Farmers in Papua New Guinea

Koczberski, Gina; Curry, George; Bue, Veronica; Germis, Emmanuel; Nake, Steven; Tilden, Geraldine

doi:10.1007/s10745-018-0032-9

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“…Moreover, individuals feel more comfortable sharing knowledge and information with people of a similar social identity than with people with whom they do not share a social identity [57]. Social identity is often used by households as a means of maintaining access to productive resources, such as through labour sharing arrangements [58].…”

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Applying the Theory of Access to Food Security among Smallholder Family Farmers around North-West Mount Kenya

2020

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Access to productive resources such as land and water is fundamental for households that rely on crop and livestock production for their livelihoods. Research often assumes that agricultural production—and thus, food security—are favoured by tenure security of resources (as represented by a “bundle of property rights”). However, research has not yet elucidated how food security is influenced by additional factors, represented within a “bundle of powers”. Guided by the Theory of Access developed by Ribot and Peluso, we explore the main factors in the respective bundles of rights and powers that influence household food security around north-west Mount Kenya. We interviewed 76 households—38 food secure and 38 food insecure—who were subsampled from a previous food security survey of 380 households. Results show that household food insecurity was not exclusively the result of a lack of private property rights as many farmers had retained their property rights. Instead, a major factor preventing access to productive resources was the difficulty faced by food insecure households in accessing farm technology (i.e. hand tools and implements). Access to authority and via social relations were significantly correlated with access to technology, so improving the latter must take into account the former.

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Applying the Theory of Access to Food Security among Smallholder Family Farmers around North-West Mount Kenya

2020

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“…Despite population pressure, a 2018 study found small holders were able to grow sufficient food for their families by regularly selling surplus garden foods at local markets, and by consuming nutritionally rich foods. They also adopted the intercropping of oil palm into land previously reserved for food gardens [56].…”

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Food security and small holder farming in Pacific Island countries and territories: A scoping review

Georgeou

Hawksley

Wali

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UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2: Zero Hunger links ending hunger to achieving food security, improving nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture. The Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) is a region where such linkages can be investigated as the PICTs are confronting climate change while facing a decrease in available arable land and increasing rates of urbanisation. Around 80% of all Pacific Islanders still rely on agricultural produce from their own gardens or from small holder farmers to support or to supplement their diets. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has declared the years 2019–2028 to be the Decade of Family Farming. Food imports are increasingly common in PICTs, and can provide cheap, although not particularly nutritious foods, leading to generalised health problems. Increased reliance on imports is itself an indicator of diminishing food security, and with the PICTs facing a range of food security challenges, it is timely to assess the existing literature in the PICTs on the relationship between smallholder farming and food security. This scoping review analyses 49 peer reviewed and grey literature studies in English from 1970–2019 concerning the relationship between food security and small holder farming in the PICTs. It identifies four main themes: (1) Community adaptation, resilience and crop diversification; (2) Decreased availability of local foods and land; (3) Changes in diet; (4) Gender and agricultural production. The review shows Pacific peoples quickly adapt to changing circumstances to plant different crops both for food and for sale, and it identifies the role of small holder agriculture as crucial to: (1) growing local foods to support food security, and (2) expanding domestic asset creation to promote economic development, especially for women.

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“…In contrast to that on mining, the literature on the socio-economic effects of large-scale plantations on local communities in PNG is limited in scope, despite the fact that plantations have a long history in PNG (Lewis 1996). There has been previous research in PNG on plantations dedicated to oil palm (Koczberski and Curry 2005;Koczberski 2007;Koczberski et al 2012Koczberski et al , 2018Tammisto 2018), coconuts (Panoff 1990), commercial sugar cane (Errington and Gewertz 2004) and (mainly smallholder) coffee (Sexton 1986;West 2012) and cocoa (Curry et al 2007(Curry et al , 2012. It too has documented various aspects of inequality that develop with the introduction of such plantation schemes.…”

Section: Large-scale Capital and Social Inequality In Pngmentioning

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Capital and Inequality in Rural Papua New Guinea

Beer¹,

Schwoerer²

2022

Capital and Inequality in Rural Papua New Guinea

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Diffusing Risk and Building Resilience through Innovation: Reciprocal Exchange Relationships, Livelihood Vulnerability and Food Security amongst Smallholder Farmers in Papua New Guinea

Cited by 18 publications

References 58 publications

Applying the Theory of Access to Food Security among Smallholder Family Farmers around North-West Mount Kenya

Applying the Theory of Access to Food Security among Smallholder Family Farmers around North-West Mount Kenya

Food security and small holder farming in Pacific Island countries and territories: A scoping review

Capital and Inequality in Rural Papua New Guinea

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