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Threshing rice in Bercoli, Timor-Leste (Lisa Palmer)

2 November 2021

Life and governance in the rice fields of Timor-Leste

by Lisa Palmer

A woman in a white t-shirt, colourful skirt and blue broad-brimmed hat sits on wooden steps taking notes with pen and paper. In front of her sit two elderly people on a woven mat. Beside the is a house built on short stilts. In the background is a house with a palm frond roof.

17 August 2021

An important book at a difficult time

by Michael Rose

COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Poros (Akito Ximenes)

20 July 2021

COVID-19: the view from a Timorese village

by Akito Ximenes and Michael Rose

Foundations of classroom change in developing countries: a review

23 April 2021

Foundations of classroom change in developing countries: a review

by Robert Cannon

30 March 2021

COVID-19 and the haus krai

by Nayahamui Michelle Rooney

Jeremy Beckett

4 March 2021

‘Some things that you don’t understand’: religion and development

by Gordon Peake and Julia Bergin

Cloud forests on the road to Yoka, Decha Woreda, Kafa Zone, southwest Ethiopia

3 December 2020

Land use management in southwest Ethiopia: sociocultural and gender perspectives

by Ruth Jackson

A local guitarist on a mobile telephone screen, Irupara village, Central Province, PNG, 2019 (Denis Crowdy)

25 September 2020

Local music sharing via mobile phones in Melanesia

by Amanda H A Watson, Denis Crowdy, Cameron Jackson and Heather Horst

L–R: East Sepik Province Governor Allan Bird, Oro Governor Gary Juffa, Angoram MP Salio Waipo wearing black to raise awareness on ending violence against women (Photo credit: Namorong Report)

11 June 2020

Building a violence-free society in PNG

by Allan Bird

Market place at Kiunga, 24 March 2020, after Covid-19 ‘awareness’ by police (Credit: Senior Shintaro Dumo)

16 April 2020

God, health and COVID-19 in remote Papua New Guinea

by Monica Minnegal and Peter Dwyer

22 October 2019

Levuka Historical Port Town: whose heritage?

by Luke Kiddle

11 October 2019

Pacific fashion on a global stage: London Pacific Fashion Week

by Ceridwen Spark

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