The declining export competitiveness of farmers and fishers in the Pacific Islands, coupled with increased dietary dependence on imported food, has led public and private sector stakeholders in the Pacific to prioritize improving the capacity of their agricultural sectors to meet their domestic food needs. As a result, there is an urgent need for public and private sector cooperation in order to facilitate the investment in greater productivity and value chain efficiency required to deliver more local food of high nutritional value to domestic markets, including growing tourist markets. There is also a critical need for: i) strategic intervention from the public sector to implement policies that stimulate private sector growth; and ii) increased investment to build the competitiveness of domestic agricultural production.