^{Friday 17 May 2013, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Suva}

SPC, through the European Union-funded Increasing Agricultural Commodity Trade (IACT) Project, has been working with seaweed farming communities in the Pacific to identify new export markets for their products.

^{Wednesday 15 May 2013, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Suva, Fiji} 
Ethel Madada (left) in an interview with Choiseul Province Women’s Agriculture Officer, part of the joint SPC, GIZ, UNDP and MAL team.
The situation in Choiseul province is one that is becoming increasingly familiar to communities throughout the Pacific. Increased weather variability linked to climate change, including more droughts and more floods, is impacting livelihoods. Ethel Madada from Sepa village in southern Choiseul, Solomon Islands, is struggling to put food on the table. Recent flooding following a drought in January has damaged her sweet potatoes, yams, peanuts, bananas and cassava.