The culture and politics of hunger in West Papua
In the Indonesian-occupied region of West Papua, large-scale deforestation to make way for agribusiness plantations under government-endorsed development schemes has radically undermined the food security of Indigenous Marind and neighboring communities, who rely primarily on native forests, savannahs, swamps, and wetlands for their daily subsistence. Forest foods including sago, root crops, cassowary, boars and deer […]
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