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CTA and our PWA 2017 Proje ject le learnin ing jo journey

Opening Ceremony

PWA CROPS – Culture // Resilience // Opportunities // Products // Sustainability

CT CTA Booth & our banners

• Estimated > 300 visitors
• Great interest in our selected

publications/brochures

• 200 USB keys with publications
• Other promotional material

Products: Locally produced with modern packaging techniques celebrating Pacific culture

Cultural handicrafts and local produce

Overview: Our fl flagship side events and fi field trip

Tuesday 17 October Tuesday 17 October Wednesday, 18 October Wednesday, 18 October Thursday, 19 October

Promoting Youth Agri- Entrepreneurship in the Pacific Priority Value Chain Coordination/ Agricultural Innovation Platforms New Opportunities in the Agritourism Sector in the Pacific Field Trip

Vanuatu National Congress Centre The Melanesian Hotel The Melanesian Hotel Cultural Village Tanna Farms Lapita Café Local Market & Supermarket

CTA and partners; Government of Vanuatu, IFAD, PIPSO, SPC, SPTO

Promoting Youth Agri ri-Entrepreneurship in in the Pacif ific

• Successful young agri-entrepreneurs shared their stories
• Development partners can and do play a catalytic role
• Small grants and ICTs are enablers and drivers of success
• More supportive enabling policies and finance needed
• Opportunities exist to enhance the appeal of the agricultural sector,

Highlights

• Honourable Minister of Agriculture, Vanuatu recognized that cross-sectoral

policies are needed and promised to take action and work more closely with the Ministry of Youth

• CTAs alued role i supportig youth to develop and sustain profitable

agribusinesses in their home countries

• IFAD underpinned that we cannot assume what our youth want and must

continuously engage them if they are to make any meaningful contribution to agricultural development

• SPCs ords of autio fator i impacts of climate change o arkets –

Resilience

Recommendations

• to establish special youth programmes and investment windows to

support agripreneurs including ICT-enabled agri-business platforms

• to advocate for a bottom-up driven policy process which engages

young people

Port Vila Communiqué -

Promoting Youth Agri-Entrepreneurship in in th the Pacific

• 1. Create the enabling policy environment
• 2. Increase access to finance – diversified offering
• 3. Increase access to support services - mentorship
• 4. Invest in Education/Training/Skills/Technology
• 5. Develop/Strengthen partnerships between governments,

development partners, financiers and youth

Sustainability!

The complete communiqué can be downloaded shortly from: https://innov4agpacific.pipso.org.fj/

Value chain workshop

• Discussions about results and lessons learned from VC

studies and investment VC training and studies by PIFON

• Impacts of other IFAD funded projects (Fiji, Solomon Is.,

Tonga)

• Launch of the online Value Chain Coordination/

Agricultural Innovation Platform Opportunities!

Click here to access the platform online: https://innov4agpacific.pipso.org.fj

Recommendations

• Build capacity and trust among key stakeholders and develop

synergies with ongoing initiatives at national level, keeping in mind the specific country context and needs of each user.

• Identify and nurture country facilitators/ champions as soon as
• possible. Decide on the priority VCs for proof of concept. The online

platform is not sufficient

Agritourism

• Food tourism is a major opportunity to advance the integration of

agriculture, tourism and trade sectors in the Pacific

• Need to share and build on lessons learned in developing agritourism

policies and good practice e.g. Chefs4Dev Recommendations:

• Harmonisation of agriculture, trade and tourism policies at all levels and

advance development of agritourism policies in other countries

• Promote sound sustainability and investments into technology

(processing facilities, transport and infrastructure development) with a regional dimension, complemented by regional trade facilitation measures.

• Accelerate training on food safety standards and certification for farmers

and processors

Communications – online, print & face-to to-face

Lessons fr from our fi field trip

Culture

Traditional food preservation and harvesting techniques

Resilience

This aaa leaf earth fridge a presere grated bananas several years.

Traditional fishing techniques: Spider webs are collected and wrapped around a stick (like in the picture), which is then attached at the back of a fishing boat just above the

• water. When sunlight hits, the

reflections attracts fish that can then easily be caught.

Traditional cooking and handicraft techniques: Dishes like laplap are prepared above the fire and mats are woven; knowledge that has been preserved and is carried

• ut till today.

Tanna Coffee Products

Also an example of agri-tourism linkages

Lapita Cafe

Products

Manufacturing nutritious added value products from local produce

Local Small Scale Processing

Opportunities

Local market vs. Supermarket -Products

What would you buy for 1.5 Euro (200 Vatu)? Locally sourced fruits or 1 serving of fast cooking pasta?

Sustainability in Partnerships

Ta Tank nk yu yu Tum umas as!

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Visit:

• The Platform

https://innov4agpacific.pipso.org.fj/

• The project’s space on cta.int

http://www.cta.int/en/article/2016-08-31/promoting-nutritious-food- systems-in-the-pacific-islands.html

• PWA overview page on cta.int http://www.cta.int/en/news/pwa-2017.html