The focus of the Future of Rainforest Peoples programme is local people in forest areas and their livelihoods and future.
Researchers work with local people to document human-forest interaction over time within an ethnographic framework. People’s contemporary experiences of conservation and deveopment are of primary concern.
Research locations in Papua New Guinea were selected on the basis of recommendations made by staff at the National Research Institute (Cultural Studies Division) and in negotiation with regional institutions and local people. This enables FRP-PNG researchers to work on priority areas and topics.
Research is conducted according to the model of Sites of Intensive Interdisciplinary Researchdeveloped by the Scientific Council of the APFT / FRP programme.
The FRP-PNG Working Group concentrates its efforts in two Research Locations:
