Halo from Port Villa 🇻🇺
The Pacific Farmer Organisations team, together with two of our farmer organisation members Growers Federation of Tonga and Kastom Gaden Association, arrived safely in Port Vila yesterday ahead of the Pacific Innovation Forum on Climate and Environment (PIFCE).
The team met with our Vanuatu member, Farm Support Association & Syndicat Agricole et Pastoral de Vanuatu, for a short briefing and to set up the PFO booth at the event venue.
This is an important opportunity for PFO and its members to bring the voices of our farmers into regional dialogue. Pacific Farmer Organisations stands alongside our member organisations in championing climate-smart agricultural practices, protecting biodiversity, and strengthening the resilience of our farming communities for generations to come.
We look forward to engaging with partners and stakeholders over the coming days.
#PIFCE2026 #PacificFarmerOrganisations #FarmSupportAssociation #GrowersFederationOfTonga #KastomGadenAssociation #VoiceOfThePacificFarmer
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About KGA
About KGA
Kastom Gaden Association (KGA) is an indigenous non-profit organisation (a charitable trust) working with Solomon Island communities to improve their food security.
‘Kastom Gaden’ is a Solomons Pijin language term meaning ‘customary gardening’
‘Kastom Gaden’ is a Solomons Pijin language term meaning ‘customary gardening’
About PMN
About PMN
The Planting Materials Network (PMN) provides Solomon Island farmers the opportunity to exchange seeds and planting materials, agricultural knowledge and techniques, and to participate in training activities run by staff and other farmers.
Membership of PMN is available.
Membership of PMN is available.
What we do
What we do
Kastom Gaden Association provides services to strengthen village-based food production and food security in Solomon Islands. We use practical, participatory approaches that enable villagers to develop their own solutions to improving household food security and their village-based agriculture economy.
Our projects
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Over the more than two and a half decades since its inception, KGA has implemented and been involved in a diversity of projects addressing the food security and the agricultural productivity of Solomon Island villages. View:
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🏆 TERRACIRCLE'S INNOVATOR AWARD 2026...
Do you know someone—helping shape the future of food in Melanesia?
Across Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, New Caledonia, the Torres Strait, and West Papua (Eastern Indonesia), inspiring people are quietly transforming the way communities grow food, conserve biodiversity and adapt to a changing climate.
To encourage innovation and build a productive and strong food system for Melanesia, TerraCircle is launching its Innovator Award 2026.
Through TerraCircle's Innovator Award we will highlight local people who are building a resilient Melanesian food system by transforming small-scale farming practices and leading from the ground up.
TerraCircle is particularly looking to highlight Indigenous innovators, women, youth and grassroots leaders whose contributions deserve wider recognition.
If you know someone making a difference in:
🌱 agricultural biodiversity
🌾 climate-resilient agriculture, or
📊 monitoring, evaluation and learning…
…now is the time to shine a light on their work.
🏆 Share in a total prize pool of AUD $9,000, recognising outstanding grassroots innovation across Melanesia.
Whether you know someone with a new approach, revived traditional knowledge, inspired others, or know someone whose work deserves wider recognition, we’d love to hear from you.
Nominate them by 30 September 2026 AEST here:
terracircle.org.au/projects/innovators-award/
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🌀About terraCircle
TerraCircle is a small, independent not-for-profit organisation with team members in Australia, across Melanesia and elsewhere. We work alongside communities in Melanesia and globally to strengthen locally led farming, biodiversity conservation and resilient food systems.
Alongside our development work, TerraCircle provides specialist advisory and consulting services in biodiversity, climate resilience, food systems, monitoring, evaluation and learning, and community-led development. We also reinvest our own resources into initiatives such as the TerraCircle Innovator Award and our Micro Project Grants Scheme, supporting practical local innovation and grassroots leadership.
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@followers #agrobiodiversity #ClimateResilientAgriculture #InnovatorAward #melanesia #internationaldevelopment #pacificislands
Do you know someone—helping shape the future of food in Melanesia?
Across Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, New Caledonia, the Torres Strait, and West Papua (Eastern Indonesia), inspiring people are quietly transforming the way communities grow food, conserve biodiversity and adapt to a changing climate.
To encourage innovation and build a productive and strong food system for Melanesia, TerraCircle is launching its Innovator Award 2026.
Through TerraCircle's Innovator Award we will highlight local people who are building a resilient Melanesian food system by transforming small-scale farming practices and leading from the ground up.
TerraCircle is particularly looking to highlight Indigenous innovators, women, youth and grassroots leaders whose contributions deserve wider recognition.
If you know someone making a difference in:
🌱 agricultural biodiversity
🌾 climate-resilient agriculture, or
📊 monitoring, evaluation and learning…
…now is the time to shine a light on their work.
🏆 Share in a total prize pool of AUD $9,000, recognising outstanding grassroots innovation across Melanesia.
Whether you know someone with a new approach, revived traditional knowledge, inspired others, or know someone whose work deserves wider recognition, we’d love to hear from you.
Nominate them by 30 September 2026 AEST here:
terracircle.org.au/projects/innovators-award/
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🌀About terraCircle
TerraCircle is a small, independent not-for-profit organisation with team members in Australia, across Melanesia and elsewhere. We work alongside communities in Melanesia and globally to strengthen locally led farming, biodiversity conservation and resilient food systems.
Alongside our development work, TerraCircle provides specialist advisory and consulting services in biodiversity, climate resilience, food systems, monitoring, evaluation and learning, and community-led development. We also reinvest our own resources into initiatives such as the TerraCircle Innovator Award and our Micro Project Grants Scheme, supporting practical local innovation and grassroots leadership.
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@followers #agrobiodiversity #ClimateResilientAgriculture #InnovatorAward #melanesia #internationaldevelopment #pacificislands
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KGA is pleased to share the successful establishment of savings groups in Hambere and Ghatere communities!
This initiative represents significant milestone in strengthening our ongoing projects and extending support to rural operating sites. The program went from 1st to 5th June, 2026.
We are encouraged by the strong interest from the women in these communities. Participants were highly engaged and showed great potential for income generation by targeting accessible markets.
KGA acknowledges the WARA Team (West Are’are Rokotanikeni Association) for facilitating Financial Literacy and Good Governance training, as well as supporting the establishment of Savings Clubs for women in Hambere and Ghatere, Kolombangara.
These activities were conducted under the CRFPI Project, led by Pacific Farmer Organisations and supported by the Australian Government, and implemented by KGA in the Solomon Islands.
All photographs were captured in Hambere and Ghatere
#CRFPI #WomensEmpowerment #DFAT #PIFON #KGA #WARA #SolomonIslands #FinancialLiteracy #GoodGovernance
This initiative represents significant milestone in strengthening our ongoing projects and extending support to rural operating sites. The program went from 1st to 5th June, 2026.
We are encouraged by the strong interest from the women in these communities. Participants were highly engaged and showed great potential for income generation by targeting accessible markets.
KGA acknowledges the WARA Team (West Are’are Rokotanikeni Association) for facilitating Financial Literacy and Good Governance training, as well as supporting the establishment of Savings Clubs for women in Hambere and Ghatere, Kolombangara.
These activities were conducted under the CRFPI Project, led by Pacific Farmer Organisations and supported by the Australian Government, and implemented by KGA in the Solomon Islands.
All photographs were captured in Hambere and Ghatere
#CRFPI #WomensEmpowerment #DFAT #PIFON #KGA #WARA #SolomonIslands #FinancialLiteracy #GoodGovernance
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𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐈𝐅𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔: 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬’ 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞
This morning, the Pacific Farmer Organisations team met online with the Women Empowerment Officers from our three member farmer organisations implementing the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade-funded Climate Resilient Farming in the Pacific Islands (CRF-PI) Project:
🌺 Mele Asena - Growers Federation of Tonga 🇹🇴
🌺 Crystal Koale – Kastom Gaden Association 🇸🇧
🌺 Annie Welin – Farm Support Association & Syndicat Agricole et Pastoral de Vanuatu 🇻🇺
The meeting was held in preparation for the upcoming Pacific Innovation Forum for Climate and Environment (PIFCE) hosted by SPREP, which will take place in Vanuatu from 1–3 July 2026, where PFO will host a side event highlighting locally led approaches to climate resilience monitoring.
The side event aims to:
✅ Showcase a practical case study of a locally led resilience monitoring approach developed through the CRF-PI Project.
✅ Demonstrate how community-defined indicators can improve the relevance and effectiveness of resilience measurement.
✅ Share lessons learned from farmer organisations applying the approach in practice.
✅ Facilitate dialogue on how locally led monitoring approaches can be adapted and integrated into climate resilience programmes across the Pacific.
✅ Promote greater recognition of farmers and communities as active contributors to knowledge generation and decision-making.
As the regional voice of Pacific farmers, PFO remains committed to ensuring that farmers' experiences, knowledge, and priorities are represented at regional and international platforms. GROFED, KGA, and FSA are among the 7 farmer organisations implementing the CRF-PI Project across 7 countries: Fiji, Timor Leste, Samoa, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, helping communities strengthen their resilience, food and water security of Pacific farmers by helping them adapt to the threats of changing climate and natural disasters.
🔗 To learn more about the CRF-PI Project, visit: pacificfarmers.com/climate-resilience-2/
#PIFCE2026 #Vanuatu #SPREP #CRFPI #DFAT #FSA #GROFED #KGA #PFO
This morning, the Pacific Farmer Organisations team met online with the Women Empowerment Officers from our three member farmer organisations implementing the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade-funded Climate Resilient Farming in the Pacific Islands (CRF-PI) Project:
🌺 Mele Asena - Growers Federation of Tonga 🇹🇴
🌺 Crystal Koale – Kastom Gaden Association 🇸🇧
🌺 Annie Welin – Farm Support Association & Syndicat Agricole et Pastoral de Vanuatu 🇻🇺
The meeting was held in preparation for the upcoming Pacific Innovation Forum for Climate and Environment (PIFCE) hosted by SPREP, which will take place in Vanuatu from 1–3 July 2026, where PFO will host a side event highlighting locally led approaches to climate resilience monitoring.
The side event aims to:
✅ Showcase a practical case study of a locally led resilience monitoring approach developed through the CRF-PI Project.
✅ Demonstrate how community-defined indicators can improve the relevance and effectiveness of resilience measurement.
✅ Share lessons learned from farmer organisations applying the approach in practice.
✅ Facilitate dialogue on how locally led monitoring approaches can be adapted and integrated into climate resilience programmes across the Pacific.
✅ Promote greater recognition of farmers and communities as active contributors to knowledge generation and decision-making.
As the regional voice of Pacific farmers, PFO remains committed to ensuring that farmers' experiences, knowledge, and priorities are represented at regional and international platforms. GROFED, KGA, and FSA are among the 7 farmer organisations implementing the CRF-PI Project across 7 countries: Fiji, Timor Leste, Samoa, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, helping communities strengthen their resilience, food and water security of Pacific farmers by helping them adapt to the threats of changing climate and natural disasters.
🔗 To learn more about the CRF-PI Project, visit: pacificfarmers.com/climate-resilience-2/
#PIFCE2026 #Vanuatu #SPREP #CRFPI #DFAT #FSA #GROFED #KGA #PFO
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