A blog maintained by Tevita Kete, PGR Officer Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Suva, Fiji Islands
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This weblog documents the activities of Pacific Agricultural Genetic Resources Network (PAPGREN), along with other information on plant genetic resources (PGR) in the Pacific. The myriad varieties found within cultivated plants are fundamental to the present and future productivity of agriculture. PAPGREN, which is coordinated by the Land Resources Division of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), helps Pacific countries and territories to conserve their crop genetic diversity sustainably, with technical assistance from the Bioversity International (BI) and support from NZAID and ACIAR. SPC also hosts the Centre of Pacific Crops and Trees (CEPaCT). The CEPaCT maintains regional in vitro collections of crops important to the Pacific and carries out research on tissue culture technology. The CEPaCT Adviser is Dr Mary Taylor (MaryT@spc.int), the CEPaCT Curator is Ms Valerie Tuia (ValerieT@spc.int).
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Sunday, December 04, 2005 Posted 4:35 PM by Luigi
Festive Micronesian Foods From Dr Lois Englberger. You can subscribe to Local Food Trends, the Island Food Community of Pohnpei newsletter, edited by Amy Levendusky, by contacting Lois on nutrition@mail.fm. It is exciting to share with you that Jane Elymore, FSM Women's Coordinator, and previous FSM National Nutritionist, was recorded by Radio Australia on November 30, 2005, for a program talking about special festive Microneisan foods. This was on the "In the Loop" program, organized by Heather Jarvis and her colleague Isabelle Genoux, and is for the entire Pacific region. Heather had contacted me previously about their program and had made a short program about Pohnpei bananas, in particular about the promotion of the Taiwang variety. Then just recently she wrote that in the lead-up to Christmas they were putting some segments together from around the Pacific region about how Christmas is celebrated and asked if I could recommend someone to speak with them for a 10-15 minute chat on their program. I recommended Jane as I know that she has so much experience talking about food and nutrition and also because she likes cooking! Jane agreed and later told me how she had shared the recipe of Fafa Sukla, which is a special delicacy of Kosrae. It is exciting that special FSM recipes are being shared around the Pacific region!Thank you Jane for your willingness to talk, and thank you Heather very much for contacting us here in Micronesia!! Kalahngan, Lois Dr. Lois Englberger, PhD Island Food Community of Pohnpei Research Advisor P. O. Box 2299 Kolonia, Pohnpei 96941 FM Federated States of Micronesia Telephone: 691-320-8639 Fax: 691-320-4647 Website: https://mail.suva.spc.int/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.islandfood.org |
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