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Eliot Jones-Garcia is a Senior Research Analyst with the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on human-AI interaction, user-centered design, and the ethical and responsible development of AI. Eliot is currently finalizing a PhD on the digitalization of agricultural advisory services at Wageningen University & Research.

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2023 Social Accounting Matrix for Papua New Guinea

2025International Food Policy Research Institute
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2023 Social Accounting Matrix for Papua New Guinea

The 2023 Papua New Guinea Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) follows IFPRI’s Standard Nexus SAM approach, by focusing on consistency, comparability, and transparency of data. The Nexus SAMs available on IFPRI’s website separates domestic production into 42 activities. Factors are disaggregated into labor, agricultural land, and capital, with labor further disaggregated across three education-based categories. The household account is divided into 10 representative household groups: Rural and urban households across per capita consumption quintiles. Nexus SAMs support the improvement of model-based research and policy analysis in developing countries and allow for more robust cross-country comparisons of national economic structures, especially agriculture-food systems.

Year published

2025

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2025. 2023 Social Accounting Matrix for Papua New Guinea. Washington, DC: IFPRI [dataset]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VXRM8G. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

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Papua New Guinea

Keywords

Melanesia; Oceania; Social Accounting Matrix; National Accounting; Household Consumption; Household Expenditure; Economic Indicators; Labour; Computable General Equilibrium Models

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/vxrm8g Source record

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National Policies and Strategies

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Women’s empowerment and child nutrition in the Asia – Pacific region: Evidence from Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Timor-Leste

2025Leight, Jessica; Mukerjee, Rishabh; Kala, Peggy
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Women’s empowerment and child nutrition in the Asia – Pacific region: Evidence from Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Timor-Leste

Adverse nutritional outcomes for children under five remain a significant challenge around the world, and there is growing evidence that women’s empowerment is associated with better children’s nutritional outcomes. In this paper, we analyze the association between women’s empowerment and the probability of stunting, wasting, underweight status, and achieving dietary diversity for children under five using a cross-country sample of Demographic and Health Survey data from three countries in the Asia – Pacific region: Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Timor-Leste. We construct the Survey-based Women’s Empowerment (SWPER) index as well as a slightly modified SWPER index using women’s reported experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) rather than attitudes toward domestic violence (employed in the original index). Our findings suggest that women’s empowerment as captured by the SWPER index is associated with a reduced incidence of stunting, wasting and underweight status and a higher probability that children achieve MDD, though this relationship is only weakly observed in Timor-Leste. In general, the index estimated using experience of IPV shows a clearer association with nutritional outcomes, vis-a-vis the index estimated using attitudes toward IPV.

Year published

2025

Authors

Leight, Jessica; Mukerjee, Rishabh; Kala, Peggy

Citation

Leight, Jessica; Mukerjee, Rishabh; and Kala, Peggy. 2025. Women’s empowerment and child nutrition in the Asia – Pacific region: Evidence from Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Timor-Leste. Papua New Guinea Food Policy Strengthening Working Paper 9. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178756

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Papua New Guinea; Sri Lanka

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Timor-leste; Oceania; Asia; Southern Asia; South-eastern Asia; Women’s Empowerment; Gender; Child Nutrition; Nutrition; Children; Women; Surveys

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English

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Open Access

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Papua New Guinea food price bulletin: October 2025

2025International Food Policy Research Institute; Hayoge, Glen; Kedir Jemal, Mekamu
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Papua New Guinea food price bulletin: October 2025

This report provides analysis of food price trends for the third quarter (Q3) of 2025, from July to September. The Fresh Produce Development Agency (FPDA) continues to collect prices from major markets despite recurrent logistical challenges to maintain consistent data for capturing, analyzing and informing relevant stakeholders. Due to insufficient data being collected from April to June (collected only for May across all markets and for April in Banz and Kokopo), no second quarter bulletin was published. This report compares prices in Q3 2025 with Q1, Q2 (with the available limited data) of 2025, and Q3 2024 to identify quarterly and year-on-year trends of prices. Prices are reported in PGK per kilogram and represent real prices adjusted for inflation using FAO Consumer Food Price Index (PCI) and price gaps (April to September 2025) filled using a growth rate calculated from the PNG National Statistical Office (NSO) – June quarterly PCI data. This bulletin focuses on selected important staples (sweet potato, taro, cassava, cooking banana and rice), vegetables (aibika, English cabbage, capsicum, carrot, and choko-tips) and fruits (lemon, orange, pawpaw and pineapple). For longer time series data and interactive tools, visit the IFPRI website and download food price data here.

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2025

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute; Hayoge, Glen; Kedir Jemal, Mekamu

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute. 2025. Papua New Guinea food price bulletin: October 2025. Papua New Guinea Food Price Bulletin October 2025. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178716

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Papua New Guinea

Keywords

Oceania; Food Prices; Legumes; Markets; Staple Foods; Rice; Fruits; Food Security; Nutrition

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English

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Open Access

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2023 Social Accounting Matrix for Papua New Guinea

2025International Food Policy Research Institute
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2023 Social Accounting Matrix for Papua New Guinea

The 2023 Papua New Guinea Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) follows IFPRI’s Standard Nexus SAM approach, by focusing on consistency, comparability, and transparency of data. The Nexus SAMs available on IFPRI’s website separates domestic production into 42 activities. Factors are disaggregated into labor, agricultural land, and capital, with labor further disaggregated across three education-based categories. The household account is divided into 10 representative household groups: Rural and urban households across per capita consumption quintiles. Nexus SAMs support the improvement of model-based research and policy analysis in developing countries and allow for more robust cross-country comparisons of national economic structures, especially agriculture-food systems.

Year published

2025

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2025. 2023 Social Accounting Matrix for Papua New Guinea. Washington, DC: IFPRI [dataset]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VXRM8G. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

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Papua New Guinea

Keywords

Melanesia; Oceania; Social Accounting Matrix; National Accounting; Household Consumption; Household Expenditure; Economic Indicators; Labour; Computable General Equilibrium Models

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/vxrm8g Source record

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National Policies and Strategies

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Food Security Simulator – Papua New Guinea

2025International Food Policy Research Institute
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Food Security Simulator – Papua New Guinea

The Food Security Simulator Papua New Guinea (FSS-PNG) is an innovative and easy-to-use, MS-Excel-based tool for assessing the potential short-term impacts of food price or household income shocks, along with changes in preferences, on food security and people’s diets. The Simulator is an ideal tool for first-cut forward-looking evaluations of direct, household-level outcomes of economic crises and policy responses in a timely manner. The tool allows users to enter positive and negative price or income changes in percentage terms and provides simulated changes for a diverse set of food-consumption- and diet-quality-related indicators. In addition to detailed tabular presentations of all simulation results by household income quintile and residential area, key indicator results are summarized in concise overview tables and visualized in graphs for easy export and use in reports. The underlying data include estimates from representative household survey data and rigorous, sophisticated food demand models to capture consumer behavior.

Year published

2025

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2025. Food Security Simulator – Papua New Guinea. Washington, DC: IFPRI [dataset]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/B7IN6L. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

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Papua New Guinea

Keywords

Oceania; Melanesia; Asia; Food Security; Consumer Behavior; Diet Quality; Food Consumption; Household Surveys; Simulation Models

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/b7in6l Source record

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Foresight

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Papua New Guinea Rural Household Survey, 2023

2025International Food Policy Research Institute
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Papua New Guinea Rural Household Survey, 2023

The Papua New Guinea Rural Household Survey (2023) collected detailed household-level data on agricultural production, food and non-food consumption and expenditure, and livelihood strategies across 14 provinces, covering communities in the highlands, lowlands, and islands of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The survey was designed using a purposive sampling strategy based on defined agro-ecological zones, which allows for the analysis of key factors influencing rural households and communities. It is important to note that the survey is not nationally representative; however, given the careful random selection of survey areas, we expect that generalizable relationships between variables affecting socio-economic and other development outcomes in rural PNG communities will be consistently observed across representative samples and in this survey. These factors include those that contribute to more resilient local food systems, diversified employment opportunities, and improved household wellbeing. The survey encompasses 2,699 households in 270 communities, spanning five agroecological zones. It features detailed modules on a wide range of topics relevant to rural livelihoods, agricultural production, and household wellbeing.

Year published

2025

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2025.Papua New Guinea Household Survey on Food Systems, 2023. Washington, DC: IFPRI [dataset]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BYZMZ6. Harvard Dataverse.Version 1.

Country/Region

Papua New Guinea

Keywords

South-eastern Asia; Oceania; Asia; Rural Areas; Household Expenditure; Food Systems; Anthropometry; Crop Production; Off Farm Employment; Gender; Sex-disaggregated Data; Nutrition; Health

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/byzmz6 Source record

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Rethinking Food Markets

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