Smallholder agriculture development project (SADP) : Environmental management plan - Papua New Guinea

Abstract

The Smaliholder Agriculture Development Project (SADP) is a rural community development project designed to encourage further and sustainable economic growth and enhance community participation and local governance in the rural areas of the four oil palm growing provinces in Papua New Guinea. The SADP aims to stimulate economic growth for the rural communities in these provinces by actively encouraging the growth of oil palm production as the main income generating activity for smallholders in the project areas. Smallholders currently account for 47% of the total land planted under oil palm in PNG and maintenance of sustainable production by this sub-sector is important for the national industry, for individual household welfare and for the local economies and village commerce in smallholder oil palm areas.