Apia, Samoa (FAO) - A new study by FAO, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme and the University of the South Pacific highlights the urgent need for agricultural and environmental institutions and stakeholders in the Pacific Island Countries to team up
to address the serious threat to regional food security from climate change-linked natural disasters.

Assessments in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Vanuata find the threat to be especially severe in the region’s rural areas with natural resource-based food systems.

Without climate change adaptation measures, the loss to the food sectors in Fiji and Kiribati by 2050 could represent 2-3 percent and 17-18 percent respectively of GDP.