13 MAY 2015
APIA, Samoa (Islands Business/ Pacific Climate Change Roundtable) — Saving a cultural icon that women cultivate is one of the key outcomes of a national consultation process in the northern Pacific island state of Palau, the annual Pacific Climate Change Roundtable currently underway in Samoa has heard. The icon is taro, traditionally grown by women in swampy patches on the lowlands of the larger islands in Palau. Three years ago, taro gardens were under siege from limited freshwater flow and increasing saltwater penetration.
Source: Marianas Variety