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  • Conventional Farmer Turns Organic for Economic Gains but Finds More
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  • STRENGHTENING COMPETITIVENESS OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL VALUE-CHAINS IN THE PACIFIC -Strengthen access to market through Organic Certification
  • Pacific Heads of Agriculture and Forestry Meeting
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  • Inter-Continental Network of Organic Farmers Organizations (INOFO) General Assembly of the Oceania Pasifika Region
• Kiwa Initiative Pacific Organic Learning Farms Network Learning Exchange
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  • Pacific Organic and Ethical Trade Community Welcomes New Board Members to Strengthen Regional Impact
  • Farmers cultivating nature-based solutions through Agroecology in the South Pacific.
  • Cultivating Communities Newsletter Issue 2
  • Video Feature: Tongan farmers upskilled in organic farming and agroecology
  • Tongan farmers upskilled in organic and agroecological farming practices.
  • Amanaki’s Journey to Sustainable Agriculture
  • Why Biodiversity is good for our farms
  • Fiji Farmers receive comprehensive agroecological training in agriculture
  • Transforming Agriculture: Fiji’s Organic Learning Farm Centre
  • Nauru’s First Organic Learning Farm Centre
  • Stephen Hazelman sets a new sail
  • Tonga organic sector pushes for gender equality in agriculture
  • How Arthur Mills reversed his life threatening illness
  • Cultivating Communities Newsletter – April 2024
  • Call for Expressions of Interest – Communications Consultant (Tonga)
  • Organic certification and equipment handover boosts agricultural sector in Palau
  • Launch of Organic Learning Farm Centre boost agroecological approaches in Nauru’s agriculture sector
  • Revolutionizing Agriculture in Solomon Islands
  • Tonga embarks on revolutionary agricultural path through Organic Learning Farms Launch
  • Launch of Organic Learning Farm Centres provides major boost for agroecological approaches in Fiji agriculture sector
  • POETCom releases Magic Lens film on breaking gender bias in agriculture
  • Organic Stakeholders Become Trainers
  • Farm evaluation the Agroecological way
  • Palau Organic Growers receive international accreditation
  • Participatory Guarantee System: The Cost-Effective Solution for Organic Farmers
  • Pacific organic farmers meet to break down gender barriers
  • International Biodiveristy Day: Build back biodiversity on our Pacific farms to help communities thrive now and in the future
  • POETCom Tour showcases potential of Organic farm in the Pacific region
  • Fiji Organic Learning Farms to be selected
  • Newsletter – Coordinators Message
  • Nadogo Farmers trained in Pacific Guarantee
  • Organic Plus Fiji newest POETCom member
  • Samoa Womens Association of Growers newest POETCom member
  • World Soil Day 2022
  • Kiribati Farmers to receive support in Organic Agriculture
  • Agroecology, a local solution to global crisis
  • Agroecology tools introduced to help mitigate climate change impacts
  • Toolkit launch gives boost to gender in organic agriculture
  • Nature-based solutions shared through organic farming exchange
  • Pacific Organic Farmers Call for Innovative Solutions to Sustainable Food Systems Effort
  • Sowing Seeds of Gender Equity and Social Inclusion into the Global Organic Movement
  • Nurturing Regional Dialogue on Women’s Empowerment and Organic Agriculture at the 14th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women
  • POETCom Celebrates Women Actors of Change and Reaffirms Commitment to Gender Equality on International Women’s Day
  • COVID silver linings: Strengthening Partnerships and Connecting Local Value Chains
  • POETCom JOINS THE GLOBAL CELEBRATION FOR RURAL WOMEN
  • INTEGRATING NATIVE PLANTS WITH LOCAL SOLUTIONS: DR MARINE TOUSSIROT
  • POETCom EXPERTISE INFORMS ORGANIC FARMER WEBINAR
  • INCREASING DEMAND FOR TECHNICAL ADVICE, SUPPORT AND INFORMATION ON ORGANICS
  • POETCOM COORDINATOR’S STATEMENT
  • IFOAM PERSPECTIVE: STEPS TOWARDS COLLABORATION IN OCEANIA
  • GOING ORGANIC NGALI NUTS FOR BETTER LIVES AT BANIATA
  • SLICE FROM CUBA
  • MAKING BLACK GOLD IN NIUE
  • RALLYING YOUTH FOR FARMING
  • ORGANIC COFFEE JOURNEYS IN THE HIGHLANDS
  • FOR ALL THINGS GOOD
  • KINGDOM OIL FOR NEW, BIGGER MARKETS
  • MARSHALL ISLANDS EMBRACES ORGANIC AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENTS
  • FEATURE: LAND OF NGALINUT
  • EXTENSION WORK CRUCIAL – RESEARCH FINDINGS IN COOK ISLANDS AND FIJI
  • OPEN POLLINATED SEEDS FOR COOKS, MARSHALLS AND NIUE
  • CRAFTING ORGANIC MENUS IN VANUATU
  • CHANGING WALLS
  • ORGANIC Q&A WITH GILLES PARZY, NATURALIST AND PROPONENT OF ORGANIC FARMING
  • THE ‘DOC’ OF MARSHALL ISLANDS
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  • FLIPPING THE DOMINANT DEVELOPMENT NARRATIVE TO CHAMPION EMPOWERMENT
  • CULTIVATING HOPE AMIDST A PANDEMIC
  • THE 3RD PARTY TRAINING
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  • POETCOM SECRETARIAT UPDATE
  • PACIFIC FARMERS LEARN CUBAN TRICKS
  • BEFORE I HAD JUST A CENT
  • NIUE ELECTS ORGANIC LEADERS
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  • WELCOMING NEW POETCom STAFF
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  • COVID-19 DISRUPTION PROVIDES INCENTIVE TO INCREASE ORGANICS
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  • THE BIG DEBATE “ORGANIC CAN FEED THE PACIFIC”
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  • ORGANIC PRODUCE BASKETS ARE ‘HOT-SELLING’ ITEMS IN NEW CALEDONIA
  • Island Women to Reap Benefits of Organic Mark
  • TRAINING PACIFIC ORGANIC INSPECTORS
  • VAIEA’S LITTLE FARMERS
  • “PWE WAKE RO NEVA”
  • A FREEZER GAME-CHANGER
  • PIONEERING SOIL RESEARCH
  • EMAE GOES ORGANIC
  • RELA KOKONUTS
  • OPPORTUNITIES IN PACIFIC AGRICULTURE FOR BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY
  • DIGITAL FARMERS FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND GREATER EARNINGS
  • REMOTE ISLAND LINK TO GLOBAL MARKETS THROUGH ORGANICS
  • ALL THINGS MUST CHANGE
  • ‘FARM TO TABLE’ TO BENEFIT THOUSAND YOUTHS
  • INFO-GRAPHIC CAMPAIGN
  • ORGANIC FARMING MARKS NEW BEGINNING FOR SAIVOU
  • FORESTS TO MARKETS VIDEO RELEASED
  • THE FARMER TO FARMER RESILIENCE SERIES
  • PACIFIC ORGANIC POLICY TOOLKIT
  • QUEEN OF ORGANIC FARMING AWARDED GLOBAL RECOGNITION
  • LINKING UP TO THE SDGS
  • WEAVING SCIENCE AND COMMUNAL KNOWLEDGE TO STRENGTHEN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES: DR SYLVIA CORNU-MECKY
  • POETCOM SECRETARIAT UPDATE
  • ‘FORESTS TO MARKETS’ A NGALINUT JOURNEY
  • PEOPLE OF THE LAND
  • FUNDING SUPPORT LAUNCHES NIUE-MADE MAHOLI BANANA CHIPS
  • JERMIN’S ORGANIC HOPE
  • CULTIVATING GENDER EQUALITY IN THE PACIFIC AGRICULTURAL SECTOR THROUGH ORGANICS
  • PACIFIC FARMERS LOOK TO POST-PANDEMIC RECOVERY
  • HOW PASSION FOR SUSTAINABILITY LED TO SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES
  • WILLIE’S BUCKET LIST
  • PACIFIC WEEK OF AGRICULTURE
  • TRANSFORMATIONAL FARMING: FROM IDLE SUGARCANE LAND TO A THRIVING ORGANIC FARM
  • How An Agricultural Engineer Practices Sustainability At Her Work And In Her Community
  • ZAI NA TINA – NURTURING ORGANIC LEARNING
  • GO ORGANIC FOR WORLD SOIL DAY
  • The Banana Circle: Practising Farming in Harmony With The Cycle of Life
  • How Passion for Health Contributes to Livelihood and Sustainable Farming Practices
  • MARSHALLS SUPERMARKETS BREAKTHROUGH
  • POETCOM GENERAL ASSEMBLY
  • Conventional Farmer Turns Organic for Economic Gains but Finds More
  • SAMOA NEXT POETCOM GA HOSTS
  • GREEN’S COFFEE JOURNEYS
  • YOUNG FARMERS AND ORGANIC AGRICULTURE AT THE HEART OF NEW PROJECT
  • POETCOM UPDATE
  • CELEBRATING NEW POETCOM MEMBERS
  • POETCom Coordinator’s Statement: Celebrating Women and Challenging Inequalities
  • Rotuma Island gets Organic Accreditation
  • POETCom Coordinator’s Statement: The Blessings of the Curse
  • Pacific Organic Farmers Sow Innovative Seeds Into Agritourism
  • Call for Interest to Join the Women’s Chapter!
  • Establishment of the POETCom Scientific Think Tank
  • Building Capacity of Marshallese Women through Business Planning Workshop
  • Hazelman elected to key roles in two global organic farmers’ networks
  • Celebrating new POETCom members!
  • POETCom welcomes new staff
  • New POETCom Board takes office
  • Sprouting new hospitality in Oceania Pasifika through regional organic tourism and hospitality standard
  • Great strides made in the Oceania Pasifika organic movement
  • Women’s voices strengthened through the launching of a women’s chapter within POETCom’s governance structure
  • Pacific Organic Farmers move to develop national organic policies
  • Karen Mapusua elected as President of World Organic Body
  • Pacific lends new voice to worldwide organic farming movement
  • Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Gets Global Boost at Organic World Gathering
  • French Polynesia diversifies into producing organically certified eggs
  • Fung’s Farm Successfully Develops Self-Sustaining Green School Models in Beqa and Yanuca in Fiji
  • Pacific Organic Learning Farms Network Farm Visit and Learning Exchange with Teitei Taveuni
  • Mainstreaming Gender and Social Inclusion beyond Organics
  • POETCom commemorates International Women’s Day by Reaffirming its Commitment to Gender Equality
  • Woman organic farmer creates the Pacific’s first cacao and chocolate show
  • POETCom Coordinator’s Statement: Celebrating 10 years of Organic Growth in the Pacific
  • Virtual Organic Market Connect Samoan Farmers to Customers
  • GENDER INCLUSION AND PACIFIC VALUES AFFIRMED IN NEW ORGANIC AGRICULTURE STRATEGY LAUNCH

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  • Engaging Fiji And Vanuatu Youth In Organic Farming – A Farm To Table Chain Approach
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  • Establishment Of Internal Control Systems For Organic Certifications – Fiji Agricultural Partnerships Component 3 Project (FAPP)
  • Policy Drivers For Public-Private Partnerships In Pacific Organics: Improving Extension Policy Through An Evidence-Based Approach
  • Markets For Change Project (M4C)
  • Building Prosperity For Women Producers, Processors And Women Owned Business Through Organic Value Chains (BPWP) Project
  • Safe Agriculture Trade Facilitation through Economic Integration in The Pacific (Safe Pacific) Project
  • The Pacific Territories Regional Project for Sustainable Ecosystem Management (PROTEGE’)
  • Building Capacity for Non-State Actors to Lead Sustainable Agriculture Policy Development
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• What is Organic?
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  • Goal 15: Life On Land
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  • Goal 5: Gender Equality
  • Goal 3: Good Health And Wellbeing
  • Goal 2: Zero Hunger
  • Goal 1: No Poverty
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  • Genetically Modified Organisms
  • Food and Nutritional Security
  • Biodiversity
  • Organic Farming
  • Fair to Farmers
  • Climate Change
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  • The Principles
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