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The Rise of the Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network
“Before we were using Excel sheets for data entry and reporting, but now we have MYOB installed it is easier
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Expanding the Network – A Win-Win Situation
Expanding the Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network membership is not undertaken lightly, especially when it involves adding a new country
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Better Farmer Organisations for Timor Leste
The Asosiasaun Nasional Produtor Fini Komersial (ANAPROFIKO) is a young organisation with a big job. It was established in 2015,
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Supporting the Evolution of a Farmer Organisation
In the middle of the MTCP2 programme, the national implementing agency in the Solomon Islands ran into a problem –
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Planting for the Future
Kastom Gaden Association in the Solomon Islands has been promoting open-pollinated seeds and seed saving for almost 20 years. Through
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Cottage Industry Development on Taveuni
In the earlier Vanuatu section we were briefly introduced to the Tutu Rural Training Centre on the island of Taveuni
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Building a National Platform – Farmers Finding their Voice
Bringing farmers together to talk about the technical side of farming is pretty easy in the Pacific. Farmers want to
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Filipe the Farmer
Filipe Filihia is a Tongan farmer. He was involved in both the breadfruit and papaya farmer-to-farmer technical exchanges that were
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Building New Export Industries – Papaya
Like many things that make a lasting change, it started off with something simple – in April 2015, a farmer
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Farmer to Farmer Exchanges Yield Results
Farmer-to-farmer learning exchanges are not a new concept and many of them have been run over the five years of
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Pineapples in Paradise
“Samoa Farmers Association believes we can’t work with every farmer to transfer technologies. That’s why we choose some lead farmers,
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Putting Women Farmers Centre Stage
Maria Linibi is not your average farmer, in fact, she is not your average person. As the founder of Papua
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Young Farmers Lead the Way – Off-Season Vegetable Production
Kevin Gabriel of Jiwaka Province was able to attend training in Fiji on off-season cropping of fruit and vegetables. On
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Supplying Spices and Participatory Value Chain Training
Most farmers around the world feel that their buyers are giving them a pretty bad deal. In Vanuatu, the smallholder,
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A Tale of Two Training Centres
The Society of Mary (Marists) established the Tutu Rural Training Centre (Tutu) on the island of Taveuni (Fiji) in 1969.
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Sustainable Agriculture and Soils
“The impact it had on us in Taveuni now with farmers using mucuna beans and where participants took home with
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From Little Things Big Things Grow
It may seem obvious that seeds are where most crops comes from, yet much agricultural work in the Pacific had
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Connecting the Dots – Off-Season Fruit and Vegetable Production
“So what the Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network did was to bring all the technology together, then connect the technologies
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Investing in the Future – The Breadfruit Story
“The nutritional value of breadfruit is undisputed and its economic development is still yet to be realized. Our challenge in
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The Value Chain Way of Thinking
“After the training we see that the farmers really understand what their role is, so it makes them work smarter,