Abstract:
The Tenth Meeting of the FAO South West Pacific Ministers for Agriculture was convened in Apia, Samoa on 11-13 April 2013. The meeting was held at the Samoa Conference Centre, Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi Building. The meeting was attended by Ministers from Cook Islands, Marshall Islands, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, and Heads of Delegation from Australia, Fiji, Kiribati and New Zealand. Representatives from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the regional University of the South Pacific (USP) attended as observers.