Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Gets Global Boost at Organic World Gathering
Julie Uka in her organic garden in the Cook Islands.
New ground in the international organic movement was broken at the 2021 IFOAM Organic International General Assembly on September 14 with the official passing of a motion to add Gender Equality…
Literacy Day - What is literacy?
In Pacific Education, literacy is defined as “the knowledge and skills necessary to empower a person to communicate through any form of language in their society and the wider world, with respect to all aspects of everyday life.”
Climate change and food systems top Pacific agriculture and forestry leaders’ agenda in the lead-up to UN food summit
As with many regions in the world, the Pacific has experienced a challenging 18 months since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in early 2020. With Pacific countries and territories such as Fiji and French Polynesia currently experiencing serious…
Mobile Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping of Food Systems: Supporting Access to Timely and Open Data in the Pacific
Photo: Latest dashboard from COVID-19 mVAM Survey of Containment Areas in Fiji (August 2021) - WFP
Timely access to reliable data on food security is vital for decision making in times of crisis, especially for the Pacific in the context of the…
Armed with a new training manual, Pacific farmers look to control deadly coconut rhinoceros beetle infestations
The Pacific has been battling the spread of the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetles (CRB) for years and is now challenged by the invasion of a new CRB biotype, the CRB-Guam strain, that has spread to seven Pacific Island countries in just a decade leaving…
NCD preventive policies and legislations update
Part 1: What we should know about NCD preventive policies and legislations
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death in the Pacific region accounting for 60 to 75% of mortalities. The Pacific Community’s (SPC) NCD programme…
Pacific agriculture and forestry leaders eye progress post Covid-19
The Pacific Agriculture and Forestry leaders held a critical meeting last week in which they committed new energy and focus to the region’s stretched agriculture and forestry sectors and pledged to support the sustainability of communities region-…
Stewards of our Blue Pacific: Pacific Early Career Ocean Professionals
“We are ocean people, birthed by our mother, the one Blue Pacific Ocean that connects us.”
On June 1 ,2021 the world celebrated a Virtual Early Career Ocean Professional (V. ECOP) Day facilitated and hosted…
Protected cropping system boosts Fiji farmer’s productivity
For more than a decade, Emosi Ravato and his fellow farmers along the fertile Sigatoka valley have toiled the land to meet the burgeoning demand for vegetable crops in Fiji. “I come from a family of sugarcane farmers,” he says. “But I made the switch to…
UK Government supports Pacific island progress on Extended Continental Shelf submissions
The UK Government has signed an agreement with the Pacific Community (SPC) for GBP 263,000 that will help Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, and Tonga to secure the rights and responsibilities over their respective ocean spaces.
The ocean sustains a…