‘In the plantations there is hunger and loneliness’: The cultural dimensions of food insecurity in Papua
- The Gecko Project
- 14 July 2020
A decade ago, the Indonesian government began to heavily promote large-scale plantation in southern Papua. An investigation recently published explored how some outside investors gained rights to the land and the fallout for the indigenous population. Children were suffering from malnutrition while agricultural commodities are exported from their ancestral land.