PROTEGE agroforestry workshop: see you next week!
Agroforestry systems have demonstrated increased yields (per area and labour unit) in many settings. They have also shown that they can reduce and mitigate climate change, which is one of the pillars of PROTEGE, which aims to reduce human and natural system vulnerability by increasing both their adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change.
From Monday August 26 to Friday August 30, 2024, an agroforestry workshop is held on Fiji.
A videoconference mirror session is held in Nouméa from Tuesday August 27 to Friday August 30, 2024.
As part of European Union-funded PROTEGE implemented by the Pacific Community (SPC), the Pacific overseas countries and territories (OCTs) and their government agriculture and forestry departments and public agencies have been working together since 2019 to develop and innovate in agriculture and forestry, partly through support for agroforestry.
As agroforestry development offers solutions for designing more resilient agriculture to withstand climate change, PROTEGE has funded a variety of agroforestry projects over the past four years in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna.
With the PROTEGE project winding up in December 2024, SPC and the territories of New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna are organising a workshop to share knowledge generated by the project and learn lessons from it. The goal is to identify the tools and enablers needed to scale up agroforestry systems, using the lessons learned by PROTEGE stakeholders.
In order to support regional cooperation, this workshop will be held in Fiji thereby generating interaction between French-speaking and English-speaking Pacific countries and territories. Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Nauru, Australia and Reunion Island will be among the participants.
Pacific agricultural organisations, the Pacific Organic and Ethical Trade Community (POETCOM) and the New Caledonian NGO ‘AGIR Nouvelle-Calédonie’ will also be partners in this event.
The workshop will be structured around four sessions called “idea incubators”. All participants will be invited to attend all four sessions for productive discussions on:
- agroforestry practices and technical knowledge
- technical and economic reference material
- setting up and supporting agroforestry projects
- ecosystem services from agroforestry systems
In Nouméa, a mirror session will be organized from Tuesday August 28 to Friday August 30 by videoconference (plenary session and “idea incubator” group session).
To attend the videoconference workshop, please log on to :
https://spc.zoom.us/j/99616588803?pwd=E6KqG0CmnYXrKvce0tr3rRbLY7b2dM.1
Meeting ID: 996 1658 8803
Passcode: 923014
