Bruce French taught Food Crop Production at Vudal University in the 1970s and wrote a number of books on the food plants of PNG. These are now sadly out of print, but fear not. I’ll let him take up the story:
In recent years I have continued to put together information for PNG, along with my wider project of trying to describe all the food plants of the world. At this stage I have several books written, available as computerised books in pdf format, on Food Plants, Pests and Diseases and Food Composition for PNG. These are all available on the website, www.foodplantsinternational.com, and can be downloaded. As they are fairly large books, and may take a while to download, it may be easier for me to send them to people within PNG on DVD/CD. There are also other resources such as photos, databases, etc. that could also be made available. The information should be useful for agriculture workers, teachers, health workers and other interested people.
You can find the publications here. They’re wonderful.
Via Didinet Issue 8, 2008 (not online).
I think your resources will be invaluable to me. I am a teacher of agriculture in NZ, hoping to work with VSA on a project in PNG. Plant species and any resoures for teaching would be greatly appreciated. If i can be of any assistance to you please contact me in the first instance via my email.
Many thanks
Randal Toonen