The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Solutions Forum

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 farmers organizations, NGOs, civil society and innovators to incubate, promote and scale-up home-grown and imported solutions to accelerate the achievement of the agriculture, food and nutrition related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in SIDS. The SIDS Solutions Forum is co-hosted by the Government of Fiji and organized by FAO in partnership with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

To support the ongoing flow of innovative solutions, a SIDS Solutions Platform was launched in the Pacific in 2021, and will gradually expand to all other SIDS in the Africa, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and South China Sea (AIMS); and the Caribbean regions.

Speakers and Panelists

Extracts of the Programme

SESSION 3. INNOVATIONS AND DIGITALIZATION AT WORK IN THE AGRICULTURE, FOOD, NUTRITION, ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH SECTORS IN THE SIDS - SIDS Innovators 

• TraSeable Farms - Mr. Kenneth Katafono, Fiji
• MyKana App - Ms. Ateca Kama and Ms. Irene Yee Chief, USP, Fiji
• Maua App - Mr. Faasootauloa Sam Saili, Samoa
• AgriTech - Mrs. Temarama Anguna, Cook Islands
• PACfarmer - Mr. Vipin Narendran, Fiji
• JEDOM Organic Fruits Ltd - Mr. Doni Keli, Solomon Islands
• Plant Health - Mr. Mani Mua, Fiji
• Vaoala Vanilla - Ms. Shelley Burich, Samoa
• Tupaia MediTrak - Mr. Michael Nunan, Vanuatu
• CookSafe+ - Ms. Eve Hayden, Chief Executive Officer, Cook Islands
• PRESS (Plastic Recycling) - Mr. Andrew Pedrana, Samoa

SESSION 4 : KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND SOUTH-SOUTH TRIANGULAR CO-OPERATION

• Facilitated by Ms. Ismahane Elouafi, Chief Scientist, FAO
• Mr. Joseph Cox, Assistant Secretary-General, Trade and Economic Integration, Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
• Dr. Stuart Minchin, Director General, Pacific Community (SPC)
• Mr. Anping Ye, Director, South-South Cooperation, FAO
• Mr. Kosi Latu, Director General, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
• Dr. Manumatavai Tupou - Roosen, Director General, Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA)
• Mr. Kyle Stice, Managing Director, Pacific Islands Farmers Organization Network (PIFON)
• Ms. Marsha Boldeau, Programme Manager, Grenada Community Development Agency

SESSION 5: Scaling up SIDS Solutions through partnerships and investments

• Facilitated by Ms. Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director General, FAO
• H. E. Mr. Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Attorney-General and Minister for Economy, Civil Service and Communications, Fiji
• H. E. Mr. Floyd Green, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Jamaica
• Ms. Dina Umali-Deininger, Agriculture and Food Practice Manager for the East Asia and Pacific Region of the World Bank
• Mr. Donal Brown Associate Vice President, International Fund for Agriculture Development
• Mr. Leonard Mizzi, Head, Sustainable Agri-Food Systems and Fisheries Unit, European Union
• Dr. Qingfeng Zhang, Chief of Rural Development, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
• Ms. Simona Marinescu, Resident Co-ordinator of the UN multi-country office, Samoa