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  • BACKGROUND INFORMATION

    In the Pacific up to eighty per cent of Pacific Island populations depend directly or indirectly on the agricultural sector as their major source of livelihood, and for food and social security. However, agricultural productivity across the region has stagnated or declined over the past 40 years. A major threat faced by Pacific islands is their growing dependence on imported food, as a result of the limited capacity of their smallholder agriculture sector to supply and satisfy the needs of the domestic market.

    The challenge to policy makers and the agriculture sector stakeholders therefore, is to obtain greater food security for the region by encouraging the large proportion of semi-subsistence farmers to move into commercial production through sustained access to markets. Improvement of domestic market infrastructure, local value-added processing, and development of regional markets for a diversity of Pacific crops would build on and support the desirable aspects of traditional farming systems.

    The European Union-supported Intra-ACP Agriculture Policy Programme (APP) is implemented by the Pacific Community (SPC) in 15 Pacific ACP countries: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. The APP aims to address the development needs of smallholder farmers and the commercial agricultural sector in the Pacific region by providing clear, evidence-based frameworks for promoting production, research and development, extension, and agricultural statistics, and promoting stronger linkages to national and international markets through farmer organisations and the commercial sector.

    The Key Result Areas for the programme are:

    1. Strengthen regional agricultural development strategy.
    2. Improve the dissemination and adoption of applied agricultural production research technologies. 
    3. Contribute to agricultural enterprise development through improved market linkages.

    The project agreement was signed in March 2013, and the project became operational in June 2014 with the full complement of staff and resources. The project received a no-cost timeframe extension in late 2016, and will now finalise in June 2018.

    The project agreement requires the establishment of a steering committee to oversee and validate activities.
    Previous project Steering Committee Meetings have been held as follows:

    • Project Inception Meeting December 2014.
    • Steering Committee meeting June/July 2015, as part of Pacific Agritourism Week – see http://bit.ly/2rXy9aD
    • Technical Working Committee meeting in April 2016 – see http://bit.ly/2rXpOUp
    • PAPP Steering Committee Report

    APP_Steering_Meeting_2017_Outcomes_Final.pdf

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  • PARTICIPANT'S INFORMATION NOTE

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