I am most indebted to the people of Solomon Islands and especially the villagers of
Gwou'ulu who welcomed me into their lives as a friend. We shared life together and all the …

Understanding farmers' reasons for growing diverse crop portfolios is essential for
supporting the conservation of agricultural biodiversity to foster social-ecological resilience …

Since Digicel services began to operate in remote areas of Papua New Guinea in mid‐2007,
enthusiasm for mobile telecommunication devices has become a pan‐New Guinean …

This article presents the attitudinal response of rural villagers in Papua New Guinea to
mobile telephony, based on a threshold study made during the early stages of its adoption …

In the first years of the 21st century, economic liberalisation began to transform
telecommunications services throughout the Pacific Islands. Government regulators …

Crop choice, including the conservation of traditional crops and the uptake of novel ones, is
a central issue in agricultural development. This paper examines differences between male …

This paper addresses what Akhil Gupta calls the 'temporality of infrastructure'or
'infrastructure as an open-ended process' by examining changes in the spatiotemporal …

In the past decade, digital technologies and especially mobile phones have spread rapidly
across the Solomon Islands. This process has been surprising not only in how quickly many …

This paper presents the findings of a research project which has involved the establishment
of a maternal health phone line in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Mobile …

Social media use in Fiji has expanded in recent years and has become a ubiquitous feature
in wider society. Social media ecology focuses and examines the dimensions of an online …