Frozen Assets in Nagovisi

Mitchell, Donald D.

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“…By the mid-1970s some matrilineages, especially in the central Korikunu area of Siwai, were becoming short of land. In some exceptional instances cocoa was cut back to allow food production when prices declined, as also occurred in neighbouring Nagovisi (Mitchell 1982), and opportunities for expansion of holdings were already few. Demand for land had inevitably increased, and as land was inherited through women some individuals negotiated more strategic marriages and second marriages (as polygyny revived) to gain superior land access.…”

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Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific

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Waddell²

2006

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Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have stimulated local resilience amongst communities and led to evolving regional institutions and environment management practices, changing social relationships and producing new forms of stratification. Bringing together case studies from across mainland Southeast Asia and the Island Pacific, an expert team of international contributors reveal how communities at the periphery seek to take charge of their lives, champion the virtues of their own local systems of production and consumption, and engage in the complexities of new structures of development that demand a response to the vacillations of global politics, economy and society. Inherent in this is the recognition that 'development' as we have come to know it is far from over. Each chapter emphasises the growing recognition that ecological and environmental issues are key to any understanding and analysis of structures of sustainable development. Providing diverse multidisciplinary theoretical and empirical perspectives, this authoritative and stimulating book makes an important contribution to the revitalisation of development studies and as such will be essential reading for scholars in the field, as well as those with an interest in Asia-Pacific studies, economic geography and political economy.

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Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific

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2006

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“…Mitchell () described how the adoption of cocoa by the matrilineal Nagovisi‐speakers of Bougainville caused an individualising of land control and a freezing of the inter‐generational cycle of redistribution (also see Nash, ). This created land shortages that contributed both to inter‐generational conflict and the increased alienation of young men who had few economic opportunities.…”

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Informal formalisation in a hybrid property space: The case of smallholder oil palm production in Solomon Islands

Allen

2012

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Across post-colonial Melanesia, the benefits and costs of 'mobilisation' of customary land for economic development remain much debated among scholars, activists, policy-makers and the donor community. This paper presents a case study from Solomon Islands of a hybrid property space in which smallholder oil palm blocks are being established on customary land through an informal 'smallholder land use approval' system. This system provides salutary evidence of how customary land can be engaged for commercial agricultural activity without recourse to formalisation. It also potentially provides a more equitable pathway for landowners, especially women and young men, to engage in the oil palm sector, with the only current alternative being the registration and leasing of land directly to the oil palm company. However, enthusiasm for the scheme must be tempered by an explicit awareness of the relationships between land, development and conflict on the island Guadalcanal where the oil palm operation is located. The nascent 'informal formalisation' and commercialisation of customary land that is taking place on Guadalcanal is subjected to a conflict analysis informed by both the recent history of violent conflict in the area and comparative experience from the village oil palm sector in neighbouring Papua New Guinea. A number of potential conflict stresses are identified and recommendations made to mitigate them.

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Panguna and the Bougainville Crisis

Allen

2018

Resource Extraction and Contentious States

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Frozen Assets in Nagovisi

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific

Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific

Informal formalisation in a hybrid property space: The case of smallholder oil palm production in Solomon Islands

Panguna and the Bougainville Crisis

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