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From Alson on PNG: the hungry country
Nice work, should inform the author of their misunderstanding of our PNG culture. We are not the western way culture.
If they can’t understand what you just wrote, I don’t know what will.
From Darren on RSE COVID-19 responses, getting Pacific seasonal workers home
Is Png RSE workers who have worked on viticulture and horticulture in NZ 2019, will they be over haul again?
From Kupulu Mere on PNG: the hungry country
These sorts of smear studies & reporting has no place in PNG. So-called academic experts using their academic models and developmental yard sticks to brand this country a "hungry country" is absurd. No one goes hungry in PNG. If they found anyone, they could have rallied all the lazy people who don't want to work their naturally furtile lands where anything can grow. Load of rubbish. Compare that to india, Pakistan or even Australia...where citizens don't have direct and free access to aurable land to farm. That's where you will find a population going hungry and at a brink.
C'mon stop this nonsense please!
From Carla Cram on Development assistance in the news: don’t mention the aid budget
Thank you Stephen for this very useful analysis
From Tanya on PNG: the hungry country
But don't you in the West call it paleo diet with intermittent fasting? Double standards. To you that is healthy, for us it is going hungry.
From Tanya on PNG: the hungry country
Going to the garden is a daily chore in the village, just like you going to work daily. Obviously people need to stock up supplies , so holding them in a workshop for 2 days or more means their rations are low, so they need to be excused. Life in rural areas is gender specific. So when a person takes leave does not mean they are hungry. There is a family depending on that person to bring in the food. So you have to be sensitive to village systems before locking them up in trainings.
From John nado on PNG: the hungry country
Maybe they didn't see anyone who was so fat and obese like they have back in their country, when they conducted the survey in Western Province. So they assume the whole of PNG is a hungry country...!!
From JOHN SOWEI on PNG: the hungry country
This is an excerpt from a study I did at Rangwe village, Nuku district, West Sepik Province in 2007:
From 1 July to 1 October 2007, forty-two households were visited three days a week, usually in the evening, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and asked what foods they had consumed on the days since the last visit.
The time of the day also influenced what was eaten. Of the 2658 meals which included sago, 47% were evening meals and only 18% mid-day meals. Bananas and pawpaw were eaten more often at mid-day meals than other meals and sago and greens were eaten less often at mid-day meals than in other meals.
It was initially thought that the 742 mealtimes at which a household reported they had consumed no food, might indicate which households were short of food. But 77% or 577 out of a total the 742 meal times at which it was reported that no food was consumed, were at mid-day, when people are usually working away from their village homes. In these circumstances they often either do not eat, or more commonly, they snack on sugarcane or a pawpaw and do not count this as a meal. In over three-and-a-half months, at only nine evening meal times did a household report they had not eaten anything and had ‘gone to bed hungry’. While this suggests there is not a shortage of food at Rangwe, I examine which households reported missing a meal below.
The nine households which reported missing evening meals were Households 1 (three times), 10, 20, 25, 29, 51, and 55. They were all above the median for the number of mature sago palms available in 2016 and 1 and 55 were in the first quartile. So, unless their circumstances had changed significantly between 2007 and 2016, the reasons why they missed an evening meal would appear to not include a shortage of available sago palms. Households 1 and 55 are in Quartile 1 (sago-rich), 10, 25, 29 and 51 are Quartile 2 (sago-adequate) and 20 is Quartile 3 (sago-inadequate). The head of Household 1 experiences occasional bouts of a psychological condition, causing him to act in an unusual way. This may have temporarily affected family wellbeing, causing dinner meals to be skipped. The head of household 25 was still mourning the death of his wife and this may have contributed to him and his children skipping meals.
Other circumstances may have contributed to households 10, 20, 29, 51 and 55 who reported not eating dinner meals. It is likely that some households may have had a heavy meal at sago processing facility or garden camp site before returning home, to go to bed without eating an additional evening meal.
From Robin Leleka on Benefits from mining in Papua New Guinea – where do they go?