Tech&Bio International Trade Fair 2022
Tech&Bio represents a unique opportunity to discover all the new organic and alternative farming techniques. The fair is for all professionals involved in agriculture: farmers committed to organic farming or not, teachers, students, researchers,…
Creating resilience through disaster-preparedness
Photo: Remivani Baravi with her husband, showing her backyard plantation as a means to be self-reliant after disasters
Villages that are earmarked to relocate because of their vulnerability to severe floods, recently received resilience training…
Help keep the Pacific SAFE through participating in our online market certification survey
“The Pacific Community’s (SPC) Land Resources Division (LRD) would be grateful for your participation in the survey below. Your responses contribute to the effectiveness of the Safe Agricultural Trade Facilitation through Economic integration (SAFE…
Palau students address plastic pollution in the marine environment
Planning Fiji's Climate Resilient Infrastrucuture: Retrofit or Relocate
Fiji, like many island countries in the Pacific, is susceptible to extreme weather events which are worsened by climate change. The frequency and intensity of cyclones, floods and droughts are changing and together with rising sea-levels represent an…
Guardians of the Pacific: Meet Matuavao from Samoa
“We keep our ocean clean as we keep our house clean. [...] Because this is our whole future to worry about. For the next generations.” Anzac Day Aliielua, Matai of Salamumu Village, Samoa Across the region, governments and communities are working…
Grant award to provide jobs for youths in culture and creative industries
photo credit: VOU Fiji
The Pacific Community (SPC) has announced the first recipient of the Enhancing the Capacity of Cultural and Creative Industries in the Pacific Grant Scheme.
Training for shipping of infectious substances is key to identifying health security risks
A series of trainings on shipping infectious substances is underway in the Pacific to help public health laboratories strengthen capacity and identify health security risks efficiently.
Resistant pest strains and increasing plant diseases probed at critical biosecurity meet
Photo: Vanuatu Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle (CRB) biosecurity inspection
In their first face-to-face meeting in three years, biosecurity and plant quarantine experts from across the Pacific came together in Nadi, Fiji, this week to find solutions for…
Biosecurity is key to keeping humanitarian aid SAFE
Photo: Biosecurity officers inspecting a container