Pacific Community hosts President of Fiji
The Pacific Community (SPC) hosted the President of Fiji, His Excellency Major General (Ret’d) Jioji Konusi Konrote at its Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT) facility in Narere, today.
The Centre is the Pacific’s only internationally recognised…
Improving understanding of oceans and tides in the North Pacific
In a first for the North Pacific, the Marshall Islands Weather Service will host an Oceans and Tides Workshop this week (6-10 March) in coordination with the Pacific Community (SPC) in an effort to increase knowledge, technical capacity, understanding…
Pacific fisheries leaders to gather in New Caledonia
Mapping the future of sustainable fisheries and aquaculture management with assistance from the Pacific Community (SPC) will be a priority for Pacific fisheries leaders when they gather in Noumea, New Caledonia, in March 2017.
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.
Pacific Community hosts Australia’s Minister for the Pacific
Australia’s Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Senator the Hon. Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, reaffirmed support for sustainable agriculture in the region, after a visit to the Pacific Community’s (SPC) Centre for Pacific Crops and…
Australian Minister for International Development & the Pacific visits SPC's CePaCT
SINGAPORE – Lessons for the Pacific?
Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore Prime Minister and Dr Colin Tukuitonga, SPC Director-General
Recently, I had the pleasure of joining Pacific leaders, Ministers and colleagues from the Pacific region in a study tour of Singapore at the invitation of the…
Impact and lessons learned during TC Winston reviewed
The month of February marks the one year anniversary since tropical cyclone Winston, the strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall in the Southern Hemisphere, struck Fiji. During the past 12 months Fiji has made progress towards a full recovery.…
Palau commences climate change and disaster risk finance assessment
With a view to advancing Palau’s national climate change and disaster risk management priorities, representatives from government ministries, state governments and non-governmental organisations gathered in Koror this week to participate in the…