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BEFORE I HAD JUST A...

December 17, 2017

Twenty-year-old Peter Willie likes the discipline of an organic farming life. There are rules and standards he must keep in order to maintain certification for his crops. Willie has studied...
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MEKEM WAN HAOS

December 17, 2017

She lives in a grass home, still. When Cyclone Pam struck two years ago, she remembers clinging to the rafters, terrified Her family did the same, five children and their...
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MAKING FARMING ON AN ATOLL...

July 3, 2017

Farming is contextual. On average, it can take up to an hour to grow a single banana tree in the Marshall Islands. For the veteran farmer in Vanuatu, Samoa, Fiji,...
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RELA KOKONUTS

July 2, 2017

Since the dawn of time, the versatile coconut, Cocos Nucifera, has been a powerhouse of nutrition and healing for Pacific communities. In Solomon Islands, the coconut is everything – it...
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MATUKU AND LOVING ISLANDS

July 2, 2017

Abuzz with entrepreneurial energy, Matuku Islanders in Fiji are gearing up for their inaugural batch of a one-tonne shipment of organic, island-made flour and virgin coconut oil. Largely traditional fishermen...
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