Tag - Agriculture

The Pacifika Women Network Trade Centre reopened in May after closing its operations for eight weeks due to the COVID-19 lockdown (Photo credit: Jotam Sinopane)

How to spend K320m to support PNG agriculture, households and businesses

by Jotam Sinopane

June 18, 2020

Credit: CIMMYT / Alfonso Cortés (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Fall armyworm in Papua New Guinea: how big is the risk?

by Michael Bourke, Sim Sar

May 26, 2020

Akito and his family in Poros, Timor-Leste

Young in rural Timor-Leste: poor, hungry and bored

by Akito Ximenes, Michael Rose

May 26, 2020

Keeping our supermarkets stocked with fruit and vegetables will be a key policy challenge in the coming months (Credit Shelley Pauls on Unsplash)

COVID-19 and the horticultural sector: addressing the pending labour supply shortfall

by Henry Sherrell, Stephen Howes

March 21, 2020

The backpacker visa is morphing into an unregulated agricultural one

by Beth Orton, Stephen Howes

October 17, 2019

A field of dreams? The PNG-Philippines rice deal

by Grant Walton, Elena Ryan, Imelda Deinla

February 8, 2019

Workers from Vanuatu at Dotti Farms in Innisfail, Queensland (Credit: LMAP, Cardno)

Employers want to recruit directly

by Carolyn Peterken, Russell McKay

December 17, 2018

Adult female coconut rhinoceros beetle (Credit: Bob Macfarlane)

Coconut rhinoceros beetle: a huge threat in Solomon Islands and the Pacific

by Luke Kiddle, Andrew Piper, Bob Macfarlane

October 15, 2018

Workers in the Pacific Labour Mobility Program (DFAT/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

Is a new visa for agricultural work needed?

by Matthew Dornan, Stephen Howes, Richard Curtain

September 13, 2018

City Mission Farm, PNG (DFAT/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

Revamping PNG’s Agriculture Department

by Michael Bourke, Brendan Jinks

June 4, 2018

Memorandum of Understanding

From the Development Policy Centre. The podcast that peers behind the bureaucratic curtain to tell the stories of the people, policy and politics of international development.

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MoU PLS: Steak-holders speak

June 15, 2021

MoU PLS: Migrant labour by no means cut and dried

May 24, 2021

MoU Somaliland: State-ing the obvious

May 3, 2021

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April 12, 2021

MoU carbon: Money grows on trees

March 22, 2021

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The Development Policy Centre is home to the Devpolicy Blog (devpolicy.org) and is a think tank for aid and development policy based at Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. Devpolicy Talks brings you the latest from our centre’s public events as well as other discussions from our blog and research work covering Australian aid, PNG and the Pacific and global development policy.