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High interest aquaculture commodities for Pacific Islands countries. The way each species interact with its environment, their reproduction system and their market value.

This report presents the integrated case study for Fiji carried out under an OECD project on Development and Climate Change. The report is structured around a three-tier framework.

This publication draws on a wealth of existing and contemporary research that has been collated and analysed in the process of developing a conceptual framework for informing the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) research project on the relationship between trade and food security. In addition to setting out and explaining the framework, it introduces a range of related contemporary debates. These debates were reviewed in a set of commissioned papers presented at an Expert Consultation on “Trade and Food Security: conceptualizing the Linkages” held in Rome on 11 and 12 July 2002, upon which many of the chapters in this publication are based.

Western Samoa possesses a considerable wealth of natural and cultural resources from which many generations of Samoans have been able to derive benefit. However, appre- ciable areas of natural vegetation are being lost annually to agricultural, housing and communication development, or modified by logging and life styles and cultural values of the Samoan people are changing in response to mounting pressures imposed by a rapidly increasing human population and aspirations for higher living standards. In the foreseeable future, exponential increase in these pressures and consequent speed of change seem inevitable. In recog- nition of these circumstances the Government of Western Samoa sees the creation of a system of National Parks and Reserves as a means of conserving representative samples of Western Samoa's natural and cultural heritage in perpetuity.

Papua Neu Guinea is reach with a tremendous amount of tililolife including plants and animals. The country ia ragged with steep slopes and with abundant growth of natural vegetation. This mokes it extremely difficult to trav/el from one place to another. Because of tre remoteness of the country, of ihe wildlife resources ja unsccilt or untouched* In Papua New Guinea all of the Wildlife habitat area is native owned by individual clans or Lnder a complex form of Village ownership. This applies throughout Dapua New Guinea. Because the UJildlife Areas are native owned, the txaditional use Of wildlife haDitat and natural resources will continue and be encouraged. However care must be taken to manage wisely the wildlife habitat with its resources.

As we experienced with the Taro Leaf Blight outbreak in the 1990s, the introduction of exotic pests or diseases into Samoa can have disasterous effects on our people and on our economy. We learned much from the Taro Leaf Blight outbreak, not the least being that it is important that we are better prepared to managed such an exotic pest incursion to prevent it spreading, and to eradicate it before it has time to become established anywhere on our islands. The Emergency Response Plan outlined in this document has been prepared as a part of the Ministry of Agriculture, Foresty, Fisheries and Meteorology's efforts to strengthen our overall biosecurity, from our border control, to our surveillance capability, and on to our ability to respond quickly in effectively eradicating an exotic pest. This Plan is a guide for us to carry out an Emergency Response, outlining the management structures and operational steps we need to take to implement a successful eradication or control programme.

The decrease in fish and seafood locally from numerous different reasons . Some of these reasons including ; buried parts of the coast for ground- new ( field ) the fishery the psychological need of marine glide The use of fishing -than- necessary and experiences from storms ( Val 1990 Val 1991 , Heather 2004) past