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  • BACKGROUND INFORMATION

    The Pacific Community (SPC) and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) are jointly implementing a partnership to support Agricultural policy processes, value chains and extension support through stronger knowledge management (KM) concepts, approaches and tools.

    The challenges for the agriculture sector in the Northern Pacific are immense. As small island states, they face special problems of scale, isolation and lack of resources but also vulnerability to natural disasters and climate change.  However there opportunities to be gained by levering on digital and ICT, collaborating on common sector priorities and promoting niche products from the sub-region.

    As small island states, much can be gained from regional or complementary approaches. One of these is around organizing, sharing and disseminating information among key stakeholders particularly the extension and research practices. As such, the SPC-CTA partnership is aimed at bringing in tested regional KM tools, approaches and products from SPC, CTA and other partners to build the knowledge base of the Pacific countries and how KM is better utilized to support agricultural policies, value chains and extension. SPC for instance has knowledge products and services such as crops and livestock databases which is aimed at ensuring these are visible and accessible to various stakeholders.

    This Activity will support a number of  major national initiatives for each of the Northern states such as:

    • Agricultural Census (FSM) – FSM is to conduct its first Agricultural Census – the first for 60 years in 2016-7 – with assistance by FAO and SPC (EU-APP program). This will establish a much needed baseline for agricultural work. More immediately, this Activity will equip FSM with a number of processes and toils to communicate key data to support the Agriculture’s work.
    • Climate Change Resilience Support (RMI, Palau and FSM) – this is integral to the sector plans for RMI, Palau and FSM. This workshop will also entail participatory extension training for cassava and taro which enables a follow on demonstration of how extension training – so crucial to supporting framers -- might be captured into national KM processes and distributed.
    • Policy Development (FSM, RMI) – FSM is planning to update sector action plans for its states and also RMI.  This Workshop will help feed into policy development work by demonstrating a clear engagement processes and how KM tools can be utilized as a  complement to existing processes -  from design through to evaluation.
    • Pacific Islands Research and Advisory Services (PIRAS) - To advocate the issues related to agriculture and rural advisory services in the region, an extension and rural advisory services (PIRAS) network was established to provide support to the Pacific region. PIRAS highlighted the need to collect, collate, store and translate research results to meaningful form and disseminate in the region; Develop and promote evidence-based best practices and policies for effective RAS in the PICTs; Maintain and enhance PIRAS links with national, regional and global agencies.

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  • AGENDA & INFO

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  • PRESENTATIONS

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