Reports

The “Growing Bougainville’s Future” Report was created by Jubilee Australia’s Research Centre. In chapter 8, the report focuses on the impact of MILDA within the region and the gathering in Arawa in 2017.

The Slow Food Melanesia Report emerged from the March 2014 Slow Food Meeting on Lelepa Island, Vanuatu.

The purpose of the Slow Food Meeting in Melanesia was to introduce Slow Food to Melanesian countries and to share local experiences in Melanesia on food and local agricultural initiatives on food and nutrition security, climate change adaptation, the preservation of traditional agriculture and food security systems and to begin the process of organising Melanesia to present at the Indigenous Terra Madre in India 2015. This report documents this meeting and the outcomes that emerged from this.

The “On Our Land Report” is a response by Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Oakland Institute (OI) and the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) who were alarmed by reports regarding massive land grabs taking place in PNG. Collectively they began research on land investment deals in the country, including sending a research team to the country in February 2013.

The purpose of their work was to study and document recent land investments in PNG to inform the public and policymakers about a situation that has received little international attention compared to other countries affected by land grabs. The goal of this work was to also give an opportunity to local people and civil society organizations to express their views and concerns toward the development policies being implemented by the PNG government

The Up For Grabs Report analyses and documents the background conditions and impacts of Papua New Guinea’s so-called ‘land grab’, which has seen 72 Special Agricultural and Business Leases (SABLs) totaling 5.1 million hectares of customary-owned land - over 11 per cent of the country and over 16 per cent of accessible commercial forests – granted to unrepresentative landowner companies and foreign-owned corporations for up to 99 years

In April 2010 AID/WATCH published In Defence of Melanesian Customary Land, a collection of papers from Melanesian groups and academics on customary land and the affects of land reform.

These voices highlight the highly productive use of customary land for subsistence and cash crops, as well as the cultural and social ways land is used and valued - all aspects usually ignored in the drive for 'development'.