Loose Fruit Mamas: Creating Incentives for Smallholder Women in Oil Palm Production in Papua New Guinea

World Development

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1172-1185

  Koczberski, Gina ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

contract farming; gender; household models; labor; Papua New Guinea; smallholder commodity production

Indexed keywords

CONTRACT FARMING; EXPORT; GENDER RELATIONS; INCENTIVE; LABOR RELATIONS; SMALLHOLDER; WOMENS STATUS;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

ELAEIS;

EID: 34249977658     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.10.010     Document Type: Article

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