Changing Land Tenure and Informal Land Markets in the Oil Palm Frontier Regions of Papua New Guinea: The challenge for land reform

Australian Geographer

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 181-196

  Koczberski, Gina ^a   Curry, George N ^a   Anjen, Jesse ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PNG Oil Palm Research Association   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

customary land tenure; Land reform; land rights; migration; oil palm; relational economies; rural change; social embeddedness

Indexed keywords

LAND MARKET; LAND REFORM; LAND RIGHTS; LAND TENURE;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

ELAEIS;

EID: 84862623433     PISSN: 00049182     EISSN: 14653311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2012.682295     Document Type: Article

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