Containing the Spread of African Swine Fever, Meet Elenoa Salele, Animal Health and Production (AH&P) Technician, LRD
The African Swine Fever (ASF) is crippling Papua New Guinea’s multi-million dollar pork industry after it was discovered in the Southern Highland Province of Mendi Munihu on 26 March this year. The virus was suspected when 336 pigs died in February.
CRGA Subcommittee on the implementation of the Strategic Plan
The CRGA Subcommittee for Strategic Plan Implementation assists in overseeing the implementation of the Pacific Community’s Strategic Plan 2016-2020 and provides regular advice to the CRGA. The Subcommittee is part of ongoing efforts to strengthen…
50th Meeting of the Council of Representatives of Governments and Administrations (CRGA)
Pacific Women lead the region in combating deforestation and forest degradation
Loraini’s story of becoming one of few female Forestry Technicians in the Pacific
Responding to food and nutritional security, Meet Ulamila Lutu, Research Technician CePaCT, LRD
Ulamila Lutu is a Research Technician at the Pacific Community's Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT), formerly known as the Regional Germplasm Centre. It’s a lab facility that maintains, tests and distributes crop varieties and is operated by the…
Over 1000 COVID-19 testing cartridges delivered to Vanuatu
Women celebrated as Pacific looks to its agricultural future
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep across the Globe and linger on the doorstep of several Pacific countries, communities are already picking up the health, social and economic pieces scattered in its wake. Agriculture in the Pacific has been…
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.
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…
COVID-19 and Its Impact on Pacific Island States
This story originally appeared on the Inter Press Service website, it has been republished here with permission.