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	<title>Stori Bilong Mama Land</title>
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		<title>A rights-based approach to climate change</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2012/01/24/a-rights-based-approach-to-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2012/01/24/a-rights-based-approach-to-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Morioka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solomon Islands]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kate Morioka, Research Project Manager Over the past three months I have been analysing and making sense of the data collected from the field, using ActionAid&#8217;s rights-based approach as the framework for the analysis. We often speak broadly about &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2012/01/24/a-rights-based-approach-to-climate-change/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond domestic chores: treating women as equals</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/10/10/beyond-domestic-chores-and-reproduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Morioka</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gender equality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kate Morioka, Research Project Manager At the crack of dawn the women of Aisiko are up fetching water needed for the day and preparing breakfast for their families.  Once breakfast is over, women get ready to go to the &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/10/10/beyond-domestic-chores-and-reproduction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Predicting false seasons</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/10/04/predicting-false-seasons/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/10/04/predicting-false-seasons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Morioka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fieldwork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solomon Islands]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/?p=201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kate Morioka, Research Project Manager Indigenous knowledge of the weather is very important in determining the beginning of new seasons so people know when to prepare, plant and harvest their gardens. In Solomon Islands, people use seasonal calendars passed &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/10/04/predicting-false-seasons/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Women concerned about food security</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/10/03/women-concerned-about-food-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Morioka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[livelihoods]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/?p=196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kate Morioka, Research Project Manager Whilst women in Aisiko and Siarana don’t know what climate change is or what causes it, they are certainly aware that the climate is changing.  For most women in Solomon Islands who are the &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/10/03/women-concerned-about-food-security/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cohesion, diversity and leadership &#8211; do they determine adaptive capacity?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/08/31/cohesion-diversity-and-leadership-do-they-determine-adaptive-capacity/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/08/31/cohesion-diversity-and-leadership-do-they-determine-adaptive-capacity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Morioka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capacity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cohesion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/?p=189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kate Morioka, Research Project Manager What makes communities adaptable or resilient? Are some communities more able to cope with calamities than others? If so what are the social determinants of resilience? How do population size and social diversity and &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/08/31/cohesion-diversity-and-leadership-do-they-determine-adaptive-capacity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Women in Derin lack access to information about climate change</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/08/25/derin-women-lack-access-to-information-about-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/08/25/derin-women-lack-access-to-information-about-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Morioka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/?p=182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kate Morioka, Research Project Manager ActionAid, together with the Bismark Ramu Group, recently completed data collection in Derin, a community of 500 people located on the floodplains of the Gogol Valley in Madang Province. The research team interviewed 19 &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/08/25/derin-women-lack-access-to-information-about-climate-change/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Land is life</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/08/07/land-is-life/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/08/07/land-is-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 11:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Morioka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BRG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customary land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landowners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PMIZ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPABL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special Economic Zones]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/?p=172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kate Morioka, Project Research Manager Standing on the pontoon, I look straight down into the depths of the Bell Lagoon. The water is crystal clear and inviting. A swarm of tropical fish congregate around a coral mound, hiding from &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/08/07/land-is-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Inquiry begins into Special Purpose Agricultural Business Leases</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/08/01/inquiry-begins-into-special-purpose-agricultural-business-leases/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/08/01/inquiry-begins-into-special-purpose-agricultural-business-leases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Morioka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landowners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NGOs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SPABL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/?p=165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kate Morioka, Research Project Manager A full page spread from Acting Prime Minister appeared in today’s edition of The National, signalling the commencement of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the Special Purpose Agriculture and Business Lease (SPABL). The &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/08/01/inquiry-begins-into-special-purpose-agricultural-business-leases/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>No injunction on mine waste disposal</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/07/26/economic-benefits-determine-the-future-of-ramu-nico-mine/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/07/26/economic-benefits-determine-the-future-of-ramu-nico-mine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Morioka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landowners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ramu Nico]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/?p=155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kate Morioka, Research Project Manager. Posting from Madang, PNG Today an important court hearing took place in Madang. A hearing, if decided in favour of the Ramu landowners, could have ended the Ramu Nico Mine from dumping its tailings &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/07/26/economic-benefits-determine-the-future-of-ramu-nico-mine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Communities can&#8217;t wait</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/07/25/communities-cant-wait/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/07/25/communities-cant-wait/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Morioka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/?p=143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kate Morioka, Research Project Manager For most communities in Papua New Guinea, climate change is not an unfounded phenomenon – it is real and happening right now. Coastal flooding and erosion, salination, landslides and frequency of cyclones and king &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/mama-land/2011/07/25/communities-cant-wait/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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