As vulnerable communities brace for cyclones and monsoon season, the need to protect and restore livelihoods and reduce environmental impacts is critical

Gaining knowledge and hands on experience in agriculture is crucial for young farmers to create job opportunities. The first of three training workshop for trainers took place at the MAF/Crops Division in Nu’u from April 4 – 5 this week.

The workshops combines the efforts of the Ministr...

The project is part of an initiative supporting countries and regions prone to El Nino’s impacts

The brine shrimp Artemia is found in hypersaline habitats such as salt lakes and coastal salt pans worldwide. It is a major live food item and critically important for the nutrition of the larval stages of farmed fish and crustaceans. Moreover, it is an important test organism in a va...

Asia is home to the largest number of indigenous peoples on Earth, with an estimated 260 million of a total of 370 million original inhabitants worldwide, yet Asian indigenous peoples are among the poorest of the poor, often facing denial of rights, discrimination, marginalization and loss of ...

FAO calls for increased labour safety for difficult and dangerous agricultural and forestry jobs

Forty countries in the Asia-Pacific region have united in a call for action to improve nutrition, eradicate all forms of hunger and coordinate approaches to tackle the effects of climate change on the regi...

Addressing hunger, malnutrition and adapting to climate change are key priorities for the region

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations today hailed 40 years of close on-the-ground presence and support to ten of its member countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Between 1977 and 1979, at the su...

09/04/2018, Nadi, Fiji – Located in a region with some of the biggest country populations on the planet, and many countries – large and small – increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather events and continuing concerns about food safety, the Asia and Pacific region could face a...

Civil society organizations from Asia and the Pacific concluded a two-day meeting today in Nadi, Fiji, where FAO is convening the 34^th Regional Conference for Asia Pacific – #APRC34. The CSO consultation aims...

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to convene 34th Session of the Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC-34)

Frank Chopin is retiring after eleven years of service for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Frank joined the Subregional office in Apia in August 2015 as Senior Fisheries and Aquaculture Officer following 8 years in FAO Rome where he was Chief of the Fishing O...

A group of students from Sauniatu Primary School visited the FAO office to learn more about the organization and what they do in the region. Accompanied by their teachers year seven and eight students were welcomed by FAO staff at Subregional Office in Apia, Samoa.

Assistant FAO Repres...

In an effort to curb youth unemployment in Samoa, young farmers in Samoa are equipping themselves with skills that will help them gain employment in agriculture.

Workshops were held recently at the Scientific Research Organisation of Samoa (SROS) training facilities to give young farme...

As the clock ticks towards 2030, the year when the world’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are to be achieved, countries in the Asia-Pacific region are working to improve their systems of statistic-gathering and analyse...

FAO has been recently approved two projects to strengthen community-fisheries in Tonga and Samoa. The aim of the projects is to strengthen the technical capacity for both countries to improve and streamline their community-based fisheries management programmes.

These programmes play an ...

With the effects of climate change and extreme weather events disproportionately affecting people in the Pacific, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) withthe support of the Marshall Islands government is providing emergency aid to some of the Marshall Islands remo...

The Biosecurity Authority of Fiji (BAF) is implementing information technologies in the effort to predict potential occurrence of diseases which could pose harm to animals and humans (zoonotic diseases).

Detection of zoonotic diseases outbreaks is crucial to BAF, as it is the task of th...