Training to increase honey production Post TC Winston

Lead beekeepers from Vanua Levu are undertaking a weeklong training (20-24 February) in an effort to revive Fiji’s honey industry, which was devastated by Tropical Cyclone Winston.

Zoom - Cocoa project brings smile to locals

A timely intervention by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), in collaboration with the Pacific Community (SPC) and Australian universities, has made a positive impact on the cocoa industry in Vanuatu. The ACIAR Tropical…

Zoom - Planting for purpose in Fiji

Community members from Dogoru village learning seed sowing techniques.Photo: Vinesh Prasad, SPC Planting trees to safeguard water catchments and natural forest reserves is an important initiative being undertaken by the Pacific Community (SPC) in Dogoru…

Zoom - Vaiea’s little farmers

Nadia Fomai with some of Vaiea’s little farmers “Eww! Yucky!” the child shrieked, jumping to avoid an earthworm. His friends laughed at him. Another shriek erupted from a different corner of the garden when a caterpillar was discovered. These were…

Scientists benefit from learning exchange with the Pacific Community

Two scientists from the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) are completing a short-term training attachment at the Pacific Community (SPC) Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT).

New coconut project aims to boost Pacific coconut industry

A regional initiative to improve the competitiveness of small producers in the Pacific coconut industry, strengthen regional integration and intensify production has been launched by the European Union and the Pacific Community (SPC).

Samoa Agriculture Policy Bank launched

Samoa has today launched its Agriculture Policy Bank – essentially an ‘e-library’ which serves as a one-stop shop for information relating to the Pacific Island country’s agriculture policies and regulations. The Agriculture Policy Banks are an…

Sustainable agriculture and agroforestry replacing unproductive land use

A new publication from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural (ACIAR) provides a clear view of the current status of mixed species agroforestry in Fiji and Vanuatu and offers valuable insights into the potential for agroforestry development…

Caribbean-Pacific exchange to strengthen capacity for crop researchers and extension officers

Nine Pacific Island researchers and extension officers from Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Vanuatu and the Pacific Community (SPC) are on a study tour to the Caribbean islands of Jamaica and Trinidad to learn and exchange practices covering staple crops…

Vanuatu paravet trainees successfully complete summer school

The Pacific Community (SPC) in collaboration with Vanuatu’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Biosecurity (MALFFB) recently completed a paravet training course for 22 livestock and biosecurity officers. The training was…
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