Highlights Nutrition transitions and urbanization are ushering overnutrition and NCDs. Climate change, land pressures, and environmental degradation are threatening food security progress. Agrobiodiversity...

The per kilo sweet potato (2020 real) price in Port Moresby and Lae in the 1st quarter of 2022 were nearly double the per kilo sweet potato price of the 1st...

Functional, economic, social, environmental analysis of the vanilla value chain in Papua new Guinea.

Highlight Recent food price increases in the region, reinforced by food and fuel price rises related to the war in Ukraine could threaten expected progress in poverty reduction...

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, several major rice exporting countries, grappling with rising economic uncertainties, suspended rice exports to ensure adequate domestic...

This e-book builds upon the lessons presented in our earlier volume, COVID-19 & Global Food Security (2020). In that book, we documented the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic...

A severe El Niño event in 2015/16 decimated an important share of Papua New Guinea's (PNG) local crop production, leaving 10 per cent of the population with significant...

The EU-funded programme focuses on three value chains of cocoa, vanilla and fisheries (aquaculture, riverine and in shore/reef) and aims to achieve an overall objective "To increase sustainable and inclusive...

On the 30 and 31 August 2021, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Government of Fiji and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), organized a successful Small...

Background Papua New Guinea (PNG) experienced positive GDP growth at approximately 4.3% per year during the last decade. With increases in overall wealth within the country...