Vanuatu – The Society of Mary (Marists) established the Tutu Rural Training Centre (Tutu) on the island of Taveuni (Fiji) in 1969. In 1983 they started running a Young Farmer Training Course “to help form and train young single men from the province of Cakaudrove”. Running now for 35 years and training more than 200 […]
Vanuatu – Most farmers around the world feel that their buyers are giving them a pretty bad deal. In Vanuatu, the smallholder organic pepper farmers of the island of Malo were no exception. They worked hard to grow their crop and support their families but never seemed to get paid what they felt was right. […]
Tonga – Like many things that make a lasting change, it started off with something simple. In April 2015, a farmer from Fiji, Livai Tora, was invited to Tonga to work with 68 farmers on papaya production in the country. The farmers came from five separate farmer organisations and such was the impact of this […]