Samoa

30-31 August 2021. The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Solutions Forum enhance information exchange to facilitate development. It gathered Heads of Governments, UN agencies, and representatives from a wide spectrum of...

Agriculture and Tourism are two critical industries for most Pacific economies, and strengthening linkages between the two will provide new income generation and growth opportunities for value chain actors serving the broader...

The European Union and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat have signed a Financing Agreement to tackle the root causes of gender inequality and violence against women and girls in the Pacific. The more than US$15 million...

Women in Business Development (WIBDI) links organic farmers in Samoa with markets. They expand now to organic dried bananas. http://www.loopsamoa.com/business/wibdi-expand-export-samoan-organic-dr…

The World Bank data for the first adjustment come from estimates of 2016 GNI per capita which are now available. This year, the thresholds have moved down slightly because of low price inflation and the strengthening of the US...

Agriculture is important to households in Samoa to provide food for the family or as a source of income. Most households are engaged in some agricultural activities. In 2015, there were 28,119 households in Samoa, of which 27,411...

Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi, has hailed the Samoa Connectivity Project as an all Samoa initiative, owned by Samoa to benefit the people of Samoa. Speaking during the official signing ceremony of the investors for...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has released a report, titled ‘Economics of Climate Change in the Pacific,' which estimates the total climate change cost in the Pacific to range from 2.9% to 12.7% of annual GDP by 2100. The ADB...

[WARSAW] Tiny island states that speck the vast swathe of the Pacific Ocean have a far greater importance in understanding global climate change than their tiny populations would suggest. This was the message given to delegates...