ALM UNDP

Summary:

The assistance supported and rehabilitated a sustainable banana production platform in Chuuk for food security; to improve household banana production and improve banana cultivation skills and knowledge for farmers.

Summary:

FAO is providing Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) assistance to small scale atoll farmers in the cultivation of disease-free bananas for food security and through the Regional Programmes for Food Security (RPFS) for a home gardening project. WHO is providing technical assistance for drafting of food safety legislation and provision of supplies to enable more effective enforcement.

The main objectives of the project in Nauru include:

1. To promote and mass-produce pest and disease free banana plantlets through the use of tissue culture disease free material.

Summary:

Through FAO's Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) assistance and the Regional Programmes for Food Security (RPFS) recent support has focused on increased food crop production to enhance food security and improve diets. TCP support has been provided for strengthening ecologically-based management of rat in coconut plantations and for growing sigatoka disease resistant banana varieties.

Summary:

This assistance is the second of it kind and is a replica of the Disease free Atoll Banana project carried out in the Marshall Islands. Through FAO's Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) assistance and the Regional Programmes for Food Security (RPFS) recent support has focused on increased food crop production to enhance food security and improve diets.