Regional News September 2012

5th Regional Meeting of Heads of Agriculture and Forestry Services
The Fifth Regional Meeting of Heads of Agriculture and Forestry Services (HOAFS) began this week in Nadi, Fiji with a challenge to address the strategic threat of rising food insecurity faced by the region's agriculture and forestry services. The meeting theme is: Managing Strategic Risks to Agriculture and Forestry in the Pacific. HOAFS is the regional forum that meets every two years to review and provide guidance to the work programme of the... more
Communications and Visibility for SPEITT Project and its Components
[Monday 24th September 2012, Suva, FIJI] Pacific regional organisations are enhancing communications and visibility under the Strengthening Pacific Economic Integration through Trade (SPEITT) Project. The SPEITT Project provides European Union funding of ?30 million over the period 2011-2014 in support of regional trade integration in the Pacific. A Communications and Visibility Workshop was held at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat last week to engage... more
Regional Quarantine and Plant Protection Officers Review Draft Standards
In this age of international travel and trade on a larger scale than ever before, as people and commodities move around the world, organisms that present risks to plants travel with them. Tuesday 18 September 2012, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) New pest incursions and pest outbreaks cost governments, farmers and consumers billions every year. Once pests species are established, their eradication is often impossible, and controlling them takes... more
Community Based Disaster Risk Management Experiences Shared at Pacific Platform
What are some of the best approaches to ensuring that all community resources are recognized and mobilized for disaster risk reduction and management? How can equal participation of men and women be encouraged in this exercise? What are the most effective ways of linking local level projects to the national level? Noumea, New Caledonia- 18 September What are some of the best approaches to ensuring that all community resources are recognized and mobilized... more
Preparations Underway for Pacific Plan Review
[17 September 2012, Suva, Fiji] Work is now underway at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat to prepare for a review of the Pacific Plan. The Review was endorsed by Pacific Islands Forum Leaders at their annual meeting held last month in the Cook Islands. "At their Retreat on Aitutaki, Forum Leaders endorsed the Terms of Reference for the Review and agreed that it be led by Sir Mekere Morauta of Papua New Guinea, with the support of two senior officials from... more
The Pacific Climate Change Portal
How Old are these Fish? Regional Cooperation on Fishery Science Training at SPC and IRD
Reference Group on Sexual and Gender Based Violence Welcomes Gender Declaration
Pacific Leaders Settle Areas of National Maritime Jurisdiction
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Voter registration
By STEVE BANI Vura Heights, East Honiara
Call to Reduce Common Nuisance in Honiara.
By GEOFFREY MAURIASI USP, Lacuala Campus, Fiji
Anti Corruption Bill
By CHARLES KOULI Gizo, Western Province

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