PROTEGE: A network of agroecology demonstration farms in the Pacific OCTs
The EDF-11-funded PROTEGE project has not escaped the health crisis. Regional activities have been particularly hard hit by border closings and the implementation of PROTEGE activities has been significantly delayed by COVID-19.
How to create awareness on sustainable fisheries
13 students from the University of New Caledonia will receive a training on how to become youth ambassador for sustainable fisheries. The session will give them some awareness campaigns and information tools produced by SPC.
FAME and GEM steam ahead with new publications
The Publishing Team has just released the latest publications for March – April 2020, with Fisheries Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems (FAME), and Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division (GEM) continuing to steam ahead with their new publications.
Stranded because of COVID-19, but supported by colleagues: the story of Jocelyn
The COVID-19 pandemic led to abrupt closure of borders, leaving many people on mission stranded abroad, far from their loved ones. Several Pacific Community (SPC) staff members have experienced such a difficult situation. Jocelyn Cabarles, an…
At virtual meeting, 7 Pacific countries discuss how legislation can better protect the rights of small-scale fishers
This week, the Pacific Community (SPC) led online consultative discussions with representatives from seven Pacific Island countries (Cook Islands, Fiji, FSM, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Tonga) around the key findings of a recently conducted…
SPC launches goods and services data comparison manual
The Pacific Community (SPC) has just published the Pacific Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose 2020 (PACCOICOP 2020), a regional classification of goods and services purchased by individuals and households in Pacific Island…
How SPC organised the first virtual Heads of Fisheries meeting
History will certainly remember 2020 as the year in which the COVID-19 pandemic led to profound transformations in how international organisations operate on a daily basis. With travel restrictions and country lockdowns, organisations had to re-think the…
We need to slow down and reconnect with our Ocean for the future of the planet
By Stuart Minchin, Director-General Pacific Community (SPC)
COVID19 has brought the world to a halt. The devastating impact of the global pandemic on people’s lives and the world’s economy is a jarring and historic turning point for all of us but it is…
Fish and fisheries at the heart of the discussion for Pacific Islands’ online meeting
Behind the scenes
How do you make a high-level meeting with more than 120 people from 20 Pacific countries and territories across ten different time zones lively and engaging? Well, there is no magic wand. There is a lot of preparation and, most…
Pacific Community’s Statistics for Development Division launches “QGIS for Census and Survey Mapping” manual
The Pacific Community (SPC) has just published a manual to help National Statistics Offices and other government ministries undertaking censuses and surveys make optimal use of QGIS, an open-source and free geographic information system (GIS) software.…