SPC agricultural news : newsletter of the South Pacific Commission Food and Materials Programme

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Sq 630.995 SPC
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Suva, Fiji : The Programme, 1992-
Issue
Vol. 5 No. 2 (February 1997)
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Contents

SPC Agricultural News 1
SPC Plans 50th Anniversary Celebrations 1
A Bit of SPC Agriculture History 1
From The Programme Manager’s Desk 2
World Food Summit 3
WORLD FOOD SUMMIT 3
Facts and figures concerning food security 3
AGRICULTURE CORNER Agriculture Ministerial Meetings 4
Regional Forestry -Agroforestry Programmes move to SPC 4
Teaching Agriculture at CETC, 1996-1997 4
PHALPS 12 and RTMPP 9 Reports 4
PRAP Project 9 move uncertain 4
Gender training 5
Taro Network update 5
International Pepper Community 5
Disaster managers told that EL NINO is an established phenomenon 6
COCONUT CORNER APCC News 6
The third taro symposium 6
COGENT News Multiple Uses of Coconut meeting 7
BUROTROP NEWS 7
Standing Committee meeting 1996 7
PNG signs agreement 7
Meeting on coconut genetic resources for the Pacific held in Vanuatu 8
The CGRNAP Pacific Project (funded by Asian Development Bank) 8
Coconut virus/viroid update 8
STANTECH manual 9
Leptospirosis LIVESTOCK NEWS 9
Animal Health Adviser & Veterinary Epidemiologist 9
BSE (Mad Cow Disease) not a threat to the Pacific 10
Plant Protection News Pest Monitoring in the Pacific 10
PPPIS Workshop 11
Plant Protection Curriculum Development Workshop 11
Bemisia survey 11
Regional Workshop on Kava Dieback 12
Workshop on Endogenous Bacteria in Tissue Culture 12
Focus on Fruit Fly Regional Symposium on Fruit Flies 13
Export of pawpaw from Fiji 13
SPC-German Biocontrol News IPM Training Workshop, Mount Hagen, PNG 13
Diadegma: A success-story in the PNG Highlands 14
New phase of the SPC-German Project 14
Pesticide Application Workshops in Fiji and the Cook Islands 14
Information Services 15
Silverleaf whitefly 15
Personnel Changes and Developments 15
New UNV for Vanuatu Fruit Fly Programme 16
Hazelman elected to IPGRI Board 16
ADAP NEWS ADAP "success" against taro leaf blight 16
Tuvalu gets entomologist support 16
PRAP News -Logical Framework Training Kit-A participatory communication tool for the South Pacific 17
Training opportunities in agriculture in 1997 18
COUNTRY PROFILES American Samoa Taro ban 18
Cook Islands World Food Summit statement 18
Fiji World Food Summit pledge 19
Women's Dendrobium Orchid Workshop 19
Training with a difference 19
MAFF & ALTA on the move 19
Kiribati Taro Beetle Leaflets Well Received 20
Marshall Islands World Food Summit concerns 20
Papua New Guinea Germplasm conservation a high priority 20
Cocoa Breeding Program-PNG CCRI 21
The David Stewart Research Station, CCRI 21
Research activities at DSRS 22
Tuvalu Situation of the coconut-scale infestation in Tuvalu 23
Vanuatu Interest in kava high 23
Western Samoa Taro Beetle leaflets in use 23
Acronyms 24

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