2015 Agroforestry initiatives

Greetings form Secretariat of the Pacific Community!

The Agroforestry activities for the year has been planned out.

The planned activity for Fiji (Labasa demo site) will continue and first mission to the farm will be undertaken between 20th April to 25th April. Another new site in central Vitilevu will be developed this year.

The team has also undertaking agroforestry farm development work for Solomon Island in Choisuel Province. Eight communities will be assisted with this initiatives, thanks to GIZ and USAID.

Fiji is  Also earmarked to have an extra 7.5 million trees spanning six thousand hectares of forestry plantations and woodlots in a major boost for livelihoods in Viti Levu, thanks to a new initiative funded by the European Union and implemented by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC).

The reforest project will also reduce the vulnerability of sugar cane crop to soil erosion and will protect Sugar cane access roads from damages and flooding thus benefitting the farming communities.

Reforest Fiji was launched recently by the Minister for Fisheries and Forests, Hon. Osea Naiqamu, and the head of the European Union Delegation for the Pacific, Ambassador Andrew Jacobs, at one of the project demonstration sites in Vuniyasi, Malolo, Nadi, in Western Viti Levu.

Work in Vanuatu and Tonga is ongoing. 

More updates will be made as the planned work progresses