[ANU Pacific.Institute] ACPIR Pacific Seminar Series: Tech adoption amongst smallholder farmers in PNG

[Inez Mahony]

The Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research (ACPIR) invites you to join our monthly Pacific Seminar Series, where people discuss aspects of their research, work or cultural experiences related to the Pacific Islands to stimulate conversations and connections.



This month's topic: How does technology adoption interact with socio-cultural change amongst smallholder farmers in Papua New Guinea?

Prof George N. Curry and Assoc Prof Gina Koczberski



When: 12 - 1pm Wed 30 Mar, 2022

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In this seminar, Professor George N. Curry and Associate Professor Gina Koczberski will discuss technology adoption amongst smallholder farmers in Papua New Guinea.
The low rate of technology adoption has long been recognised as a key constraint on improving productivity, income and yields in farming, particularly amongst small farmers in developing countries.  In this presentation, we explore the role of socio-cultural factors in smallholder decision-making regarding the adoption of new technologies.  Drawing on two case studies from cocoa and oil palm in Papua New Guinea, we illustrate the value of examining proposed innovations and technologies in terms of their capacity to undermine or strengthen indigenous socio-cultural values as a way of understanding potential points of resistance or pathways to adoption.



Prof. George Curry is a Geographer at Curtin University. Most of his research has been in rural Papua New Guinea, examining sociocultural and economic change associated with modernisation and the transition to a market economy at the household and community levels. He uses a sustainable livelihoods approach to investigate how export cash cropping and labour migration are accommodated within quasi-subsistence economies, where indigenous relations of production and exchange and communal land tenure are still strong. Prof Phil Brown is Professor of Horticulture Science and Director of the Institute for Future Farming Systems at C​QUniversity.
Assoc. Prof. Gina Koczberski is a Geographer and a Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University. She has over 25 years of research and fieldwork experience in PNG working on issues around internal migration and migrant livelihoods, land tenure, agricultural and rural change, gender, and smallholder production and livelihood practices. Since 2000 she has been involved in several research projects examining socio-economic change in smallholder oil palm, coffee and cocoa production in PNG, with an emphasis on examining how changing demographic, economic and social circumstances influence household/gender relations of production and strategies of commodity crop production.

Dr Inez Mahony
Centre Manager, Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research
Project Manager, Pacific Agribusiness Research in Development Initiative 2 (PARDI 2)
University of the Sunshine Coast
Phone: +61 7 5459 4798 / 0420920833
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