Food Garden Capacity and Population Growth: A Case in Papua New Guinea

Rivers of Memory and Forgetting

“…Despite the fluidity and complexity of the land tenure system, one fact became readily apparent to me during the first few weeks of my agricultural study. The vast majority of gardens were located beside rivers: 65 per cent of the total area under cultivation was located in the Bitoi delta (Wagner 2002;Bein et al 2007) and 30 per cent was located beside the Tabale River near the village. Most other gardens were located on Lababia Island (Wagner 2002).…”