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The Land Management Group
What We Are About

The goal of the Land Management Group is to understand the critical role of land managers in sustaining production from land.

Land Management Group aims to understand the critical role of the land managers, the women and men who occupy, work and manage the land, in sustaining production from it.

The Group employs the broad concept of 'agricultural system' to encapsulate the complex relationships between the human managers, the land, the plants and animals they use to support themselves, and the natural and social environments in which they are embedded.

This goal is being pursued through a number of research themes at a number of geographical scales and locations, mainly in Papua New Guinea.

Research Themes:

Agricultural Systems

The identification, documentation, description and mapping of contemporary agricultural systems

Farming Systems

An analysis of contemporary agricultural systems in relation to the natural resource base, land use intensities, cash earning capacity, access to markets and services and indicators of poverty and malnutrition.

Agrodiversity and Biodiversity

An investigation of the impact of increasing commercialisation and intensification of land in agriculture on the maintenance of biodiversity and agrodiversity [PLEC].

Environmental History

An investigation of the evolution of Papua New Guinea agricultural systems over the past 150 years [Environmental History of Papua New Guinea Agriculture Project].

Frost and Drought

An investigation of the influence of infrequent extreme climatic events (too much or too little rain) on agricultural system management. 

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Last updated: Tuesdayy 18 May 1999


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