Category: Root crops

Listening to Maria Linibi’s story of how the foundation she heads got gifted five acres of good agricultural land in order to start a genetic and seed bank reminds one of the Bible story of the Hebrew young man Joseph, who warned Pharaoh of an approaching famine and got appointed to mobilize an Egypt-wide response. […]

Like other organisations in the Pacific whose activities were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chambre d’Agriculture de Nouvelle Caledonie (CANC) is raring to go with one of its projects up in the northern province of Houailou. This project addresses the matter of nutrition in school canteens, and CANC was working with its partners in […]