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Agriculture

and tree species and facilitates the safe distribution of plant protected from saltwater intrusion.
material across borders. CePaCT recently won the Island Inno- Dr Aumua said that these and other breakthroughs need sup-
vation Award for Innovative Island Research, with Programme port and collaboration to take hold.
Leader for Genetic Resources Logotonu Meleisea Waqainabete “I ask, as science and research progresses in the Pacific,
saying the award would continue to advance CePaCT’s work as why is our aid lagging and our agricultural models outdated?
SPC partners with Pacific communities to face climate change There is currently a lack of investment in scaling and most
and build a food-secure future for the region. importantly we need a broader regional research agenda that
Dr Aumua also noted the release of a coconut risk manage- not only provides support, but builds capacity for agricultural
ment and mitigation manual this year, saying of the coconut research in the region, so that Pacific people themselves can
tree: “It really has to be the most useful tree in the world, innovate using their own knowledge and skills.”
however it is under threat. The rhinoceros beetle is a ma- She acknowledges there have been improvements, but
jor pest to the coconut and has to date devastated coconut urged inclusivity.
growth and production in many small islands.” “The science and technology communities really do need to
She said the manual “covers risks from seed to consump- work hand in hand with traditional knowledge practitioners
tion, including climate change, planting, pests and diseases, to finding unique and relevant solutions to our unique and
policy, technology, post harvest marketing and essentially relevant agricultural challenges. But we need those solutions
cultural habits.” to travel beyond the lab and beyond the village.”
The Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle has been identified in seven She urges funders not to look at projects and options like a
Pacific Island countries, spreading rapidly in the past decade, “menu of choices”.
and killing thousands of trees, thwarting recovery and replant- “We cannot decide to deal with one area and leave the rest
ing efforts and investment in value-added coconut products. for another time. They are all interconnected. Failure to fund
A third innovation, food cube technology which allows for and invest in one area will inevitably bring down the rest.”
food crop cultivation in sandy atoll nations, is being trialled
in Tuvalu, with plans to extend the pilot to Kiribati. Crops are editor@islandsbusiness.com
grown above ground, in recycled plastic containers, so are

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