Climate change, disaster risk reduction & desertification

Environment and ecosystem management are key to ensuring urban and rural development and progress towards the achievement of the MDGs. Poor communities directly depend on natural resources for their livelihood and are the most vulnerable to a degraded environment, natural disasters and are the first to suffer from polluted air, water and soil. Sound natural resource use is at the core of effective strategies to strengthen resilience to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Adaptation - Climate Change - Clean energy technology - Climate finance - Climate smart agriculture - Desertification/land degradation - Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) - Drought - Flood prevention/control - Mitigation

Interest for AgriTourism in Pele Island - Pacific Agritourism week

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 1 July 2015

“Small is beautiful” is a popular cliché when economists are unimpressed with the chaos of large man-made things. For a tiny island like Pele, this is quite true; it is known and loved for its many natural features, so visitors keep coming back, year after year.Pele, nestled on a picturesque lagoon...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Chefs for development: an innovative approach to promote Agritourism

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 1 July 2015

Sometimes opportunities need to be created rather than waiting for them to come. And for a region like the Pacific, which has often been described with the sentence; “If there is a place in the world that is a mystery – it’s the Pacific” , it may just be better to create windows of opportunity...

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Agritourism: Are we headed the right way? - Pacific Agriculture Week 2015

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 1 July 2015

Agribusiness is not a foreign term in the Pacific, where most of the countries rely on agriculture as a source of income. To those who may be unacquainted to the term, especially if you’re on the western part of Fiji, just take a look out of the window, the sugarcane you see is an example. While...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
The “marriage” between agriculture and tourism in the Pacific

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 1 July 2015

“More local content on plates and more local Agrifood products on offer for visitors, tourists and the hotel industry means more income and employment opportunities for our farmers, suppliers, private sector and overall interest in the agricultural sector.” These were the words from Dr Ken...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
A display with a thousand lessons - Pacific agritourism week 2015

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 1 July 2015

Excited chattering filled the lobby. An informative exchange between exhibitors and participants of the expo, some exciting sights such as different varieties of crops, and entrepreneurs with their products. Of the many booths, the one that caught my eye was the Antigua & Barbuda Network of...

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Farmers meet chefs: A dream come true - Pacific agritourism week 2015

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 1 July 2015

Have you ever heard of Agri-Tourism in your own country? Yes that’s right, its agriculture and tourism put together. But a lot of the people in the Pacific have no clue; it’s a fairly new alias with a tricky meaning. Despite this pseudonym excitement has been building up in the days running to...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
The first Agritourism seeds sown - Pacific agritourism week 2015

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 1 July 2015

As you approach the entrance of the Fiji Sofitel Resort and Spa, you can’t help but notice the huge eye-catching banner, which says – Pacific Community Agritourism: Glocalising Pacific Agri-Food through Tourism . And day one did exactly that. It kick started the Glocalising process. Well, we didn’t...

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Farmers to think “business” and become more proactive - Pacific Agritourism week 2015

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 1 July 2015

One of the focus of the first-ever Pacific Community AgriTourism Week is “sustainable growth, decent jobs and businesses” . Chefs attending the event have taken this opportunity to go down local in visiting farms in Fiji. “A smart guy is one who does farming, identifies loopholes in the market and...

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Youth reporters at the Pacific Community AgriTourism Week

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 1 July 2015

A few weeks back, I got a message from a friend telling me to apply to be an on-site social media reporter for an agri-tourism event that was going to take place in Fiji. I did it just for the sake of it, and after a week or two I got my confirmation email from the Technical Centre for Agricultural...

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Group: Building resilience of small island economies
Time to policy chefs and farmers - Pacific Agritourism week

Yentyl Williams posted Information | 1 July 2015

There is a big problem. Tourism in the Pacific Island countries is ever increasing, about 3.5% per year between 2008 and 2012. The total value of this market is forecasted to nearly double to US$4 billion by 2019. But at the same rate that is increasing, so is the amount and value of imported food...

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