Agriculture practices and traditional knowl-edge have been passed down through many generations of Ni-Vanuatu and are particular to different areas of the country. However, these methods may need to be shifted. Predicted changes to rainfall, temperature, storms and sea level linked to climate change may result in changes to planting, fruiting and harvesting times, pests and diseases, location of gardens, soil fertility and other inputs of agriculture products.

Climate Change long Vanuatu
Vanuatu i stap experiencem ol rabis impak blong
climate change finis. Ol kaontri long Pacific nao oli
moa sensitive long ol envaeronmental problem mo tu
yumi no kat enuf risos blong dil wetem ol problem ia.
So far yumi lonfg Vanuatu yumi stap lukim ol impak
olsem sea leve rise, jenj long amaon mo taem blong
ren we i foldaon, damaj long ol strongfala cylcone ,
disis mo sik long ol animol mo plant, lak blong drinking
wota mo plante moa.
‘Coping with Climate Change in the Pacific Island

The CVCA methodology provides a framework for analyzing vulnerability and capacity to adapt to climate change at the

community level. Recognizing that local actors must drive their own future, the CVCA prioritises local knowledge on climate

risks and adaptation strategies in the data gathering and analysis process.

This is a practical manual to carry out participatory monitoring, evaluation, reflection and learning in community level climate change adaptation programs. It includes guidelines in the use of participatory tools and methodologies.

Over the ages, human societies have altered local ecosystems and modified regional
climates. Today, the human influence has attained a global scale. This reflects the
recent rapid increase in population size, energy consumption, intensity of land use,
international trade and travel, and other human activities. These global changes have
heightened awareness that the long-term good health of populations depends on the
continued stability and functioning of the biosphere's ecological, physical, and
socioeconomic systems.

Business as usual in our globally interconnected food system will not bring us food security and
environmental sustainability. Several converging threats – from climate change, population
growth and unsustainable use of resources – are steadily intensifying pressure on humanity and
world governments to transform the way food is produced, distributed and consumed.
 

Global climate change and the significant impacts it can have
on people’s lives are a major challenge for developing countries.
Heavy floods, severe droughts and other weather extremes are
examples of those impacts which call for building up capacity
to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
While climate change will affect all regions of the world, people
in developing countries are the most vulnerable. That is
why adaptation is a priority for German development cooperation,
with many programmes already addressing the challenge

There is no doubt that our climate is changing. This will
pose huge challenges to nations, organisations, enterprises,
cities, communities and individuals. Developing
countries will suffer most from the adverse consequences
of climate change, and some highly vulnerable regions
and people are already being affected.
There is increasing agreement that if temperatures rise
by no more than 2 °C the earth’s integrity can be preserved
and many of the potentially grave consequences
of climate change could be avoided. This threshold is

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal,
as is now evident from observations of
increases in global average air and ocean temperatures,
widespread melting of snow and ice,
and rising global average sea level.”

Developing countries, as a group, are the ones most
threatened by the hydrological impacts of global climate
change (GCC). This is true both because many of the
poorest countries lie in those regions where GCC-related
effects will be most damaging, and because their ability to
respond to harmful change is the most limited. The objective
of this study is to provide an overview of likely waterrelated
climate change impacts in developing countries, to
develop a framework for adapting to these impacts and to

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC) secretariat has produced this book to
highlight the concerns and needs of developing countries
in adapting to the effects of climate change. This book
outlines the impact of climate change in four developing
country regions: Africa, Asia, Latin America and small
island developing States; the vulnerability of these regions
to future climate change; current adaptation plans,
strategies and actions; and future adaptation options
and needs.
 

Vanuatu, an archipelago consisting of 13 principal islands and 60 secondary islands, spreads
from the 13th to the 21st parallel south and covers an area of 12,050 km² in the Pacific Ocean.
The capital, Port-Vila, located on Efate island, is 530 km north-east of Nouméa, New
Caledonia.
 

This Report
1. We were fielded by AusAID (PB: 26 May to 14 June ‘06) and NZAID (BM:
6 to 26 June ‘06) to initiate dialogue with the Government of Vanuatu (GoV) over
potential areas of support to economic growth from productive sector3 priorities
established in the Government of Vanuatu’s Priorities and Action Agenda 2006 -
2015
(the ‘PAA’). Terms of Reference are at Attachment 8.
2. Accompanied by DESP, we met with government departments and
officials, private sector operators and their industry bodies in the agriculture,

As support to the policies and strategies contained in the Overarching Productive Sector Policy
document, this situation analysis discusses agriculture’s contribution to broad–based growth in the
Vanuatu economy, analyses constraints to growth and identifies key strategies that would enable
further productive sector growth. In addition the analysis is widened to cover the important socioeconomic
and political context of increasing growth.
The analysis also recognises that many of determinants of agricultural productivity fall outside of