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Highlighting the importance of reliable statistics and data for policy development, including national agricultural censuses, a week-long FAO workshop for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to food and agriculture, and the last in the series of regional roundtables on World Census of Agriculture 2020,  opened in Nadi, Fiji today. For FAO, assisting governments to produce accurate statistics for informed decision-making, and the agricultural census that is a key pillar...

Global agricultural leaders gathered for the inaugural Pacific Week of Agriculture (PWA 2017) in Port Vila, Vanuatu from 16 to 20 October. The Government of Vanuatu hosted the one-week event in partnership with the Pacific Community (SPC) and FAO.    The intensive week of meetings will saw international and regional participants explore innovations, discuss challenges and look for ways to protect and expand agriculture in the Pacific. With support from the...

Global agricultural leaders gathered for the inaugural Pacific Week of Agriculture (PWA 2017) in Port Vila, Vanuatu from 16 to 20 October. The Government of Vanuatu hosted the one-week event in partnership with the Pacific Community (SPC) and FAO. FAO’s Global Action Programme on Food Security and Nutrition in Small Island States (GAP) received support from Ministers who attended the GAP side event held during the Pacific Week of...

FAO is working on a project to help protect the people of Tongoa Island in Vanuatu where land and forest degradation threaten the livelihoods of the island’s inhabitants. Funded by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), and working with the Vanuatu Ministry of Climate Change, together with the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry and Fisheries and other key partners, the project aims to restore lands that are severely degraded due to coastal...

Growing concerns across other Pacific Island countries about human wellbeing has led to increased attention being paid to improved food safety and nutrition.  Consumers, food vendors, restaurants, universities to governments are all paying more attention to the role they can play in keeping us safe.  With World Food Day (Monday, October 16) just around the corner, I thought I would draw you attention to the role my Organization, FAO has...

The new and upgraded trail for the Nabalasere Ecotourism Forest Park was officially launched by the Minister for Forests, Honorable Osea Naiqamu on Friday 29th September.   Work on the upgrade and improvement of the forest trail is through a partnership between the Nabalasere village community and the Fiji Government, which began in 2015 and supported through funding by the Global Environment Fund under the Forest and Protected Area Management...

The Ministry for Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF), the Samoan Bureau for Statistics (SBS) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) have been working together to improve agriculture sector information and statistics for Samoa. The importance of up-to-date and reliable data on the agricultural sector was reiterated at the Statistics Methods Training Workshop which is being conducted at MAF this week. In his opening remarks the CEO of MAF, Tilafono...

The FAO Subregional Office of the Pacific Island is pleased to welcome Ms Ana Tiraa, Natural Resources Management/Climate Change Officer.A national from the Cook Islands, Ana will lead technical work and partnership building on climate change and natural resources management within the Pacific Subregion, particularly with proposal preparations and negotiations related to the Green Climate Fund (CGF).Ana brings over 20 years conservation/environmental/climate change work experience in the Cook Islands and...

Vanuatu is expecting up to 200 delegates once the country hosts the inaugural Pacific Week of Agriculture (PWA) from 16 to 20 October 2017. The figure has been revealed by organizers in Port Vila who are optimistic PWA, which will combine for the first time, two key regional agriculture meetings – the Heads of Agriculture and Forestry Services meeting organized by the Pacific Community or SPC, and the Ministers of Agriculture...

The Palau capital plays host this week to the first subregional meeting in the pacific on the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing.  The workshop has been jointly organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources, Environment & Tourism and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The world’s first treaty designed to combat illegal fishing went into effect almost...