Vanuatu
Communities in Vanuatu are often intimately connected with their land; its rich soils, lively forests and natural waterways all contribute significantly to people’s lives – including providing sources of food and livelihoods. These places are…
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Sam Chanel took little more than a pen and notebook to help him identify the countless plants growing throughout the Vunausi Community Conservation Area (CCA). An expert botanist, Sam knows many of the 1600 confirmed…
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When designing the Climate Resilient Islands (CRI) Programme Live & Learn wanted to develop a process communities could use to plan resilience actions that sat within the flow of complexity (without falling into the trap…
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The Climate Resilient Islands programme is working with 65 rural communities in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu to strengthen community resilience to climate change through nature-based approaches. To achieve this,…
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The Climate Resilient Islands Programme is one of the work packages contributing to the Ecosystems Intervention Area within MFAT’s Climate Change Programme. This was established in 2019 as a multi-faceted response to Pacific requests for…
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Crops weren’t the only thing being grown at Live & Learn’s Pacific Food Week last month, with connections between different country teams also being nurtured. Alongside learning many technical skills, including food processing methods and…
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Pacific Island nations face many challenges to their food resilience, but there is also huge knowledge and opportunity throughout the region to help overcome these difficulties. Factors like limited arable land, sea level rise and…
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Communities participating in the Climate Resilient Islands programme across Vanuatu are facing a range of disasters and challenges to their resilience. The country’s ND-GAIN Resilience Ranking – measuring Vanuatu’s exposure, sensitivity and ability to adapt…
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Community Resilience Profiles are the result of partner communities thinking about and mapping their ecosystems and resilience. The profiles contain general information on Vanuatu’s ecosystems and livelihoods, and forecasts on food security and disaster response,…
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