NEWS

Partnership to enhance kava industry

January 20, 2025

The Pacific Horticultural and Agricultural Market Access Plus (PHAMA Plus) Program, funded by Australia and New Zealand, has signed a new partnership with Fakatoumafi Kava Trading & Finance Services to support the kava sector in Tonga. This collaboration will focus on improving Fakatoumafi Kava’s processing capacity and food safety standards, and ensuring higher quality kava products for domestic and diaspora export markets. With enhanced processing capacity and improved product quality

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Supporting Vanuatu’s resilience to climate shocks

January 17, 2025

The PHAMA Plus Program is working closely with Vanuatu to build greater resilience of the country’s agriculture sector to natural disasters. PHAMA Plus is strengthening seed distribution systems, providing seed bank tool kits and improving access to high-quality, climate-adapted seeds for farmers in partnership with Vanuatu Department of Agriculture & Rural Development and Vanuatu Agricultural Research and Technical Centre (VARTC) through the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries & Biosecurity.

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SAPE expands with new facility, better exports

January 9, 2025

The Australia and New Zealand funded Pacific Horticultural and Agricultural Market Access Plus (PHAMA Plus) Program is pleased to be working alongside Saints Agriculture Produce & Export – Sape in Samoa to help improve their operations and expand their reach. SAPE has been a cornerstone of the local agricultural community for over 9 years, providing fresh taro and other crops like yams, cocoa and kava to the American Samoa market.

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Promoting workplace inclusion and domestic violence prevention

January 6, 2025

The Australia and New Zealand-funded Pacific Horticultural and Agricultural Market Access Plus (PHAMA Plus) Program and Lami Kava partnered with Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre to support the development of a Workplace Domestic Violence Policy and to train management and staff in the policy application and on eliminating Gender Based Violence. We also partnered with the Pacific Disability Forum to deliver disability inclusion training to support Lami Kava to develop a

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New Child Safeguarding Policy set for Niue’s Chamber of Commerce

December 23, 2024

The Australia and New Zealand supported Pacific Horticultural and Agricultural Market Access Plus (PHAMA Plus) Program partnered with the Niue Chamber of Commerce to develop the country’s first ever Child Safeguarding Policy. The policy articulates the Chamber’s approach to ensuring children are safeguarded and protected in the implementation of the Chamber and its members’ work.  The policy and associated guidance notes detail how the chamber will assess child safeguarding risks, apply mitigation

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