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Key Focus Area
Key Focus Area
Agriculture
Agriculture remains significant to Samoa’s economy. It provides income for around 24 per cent of households and accounts for an estimated 11 per cent of the country’s GDP. Some of the commodities exported from Samoa include coconut oil and cream, copra, taro and cocoa .
Given the relevance of agriculture to Samoa’s economy and household livelihoods, MDF focused itswork on agriculture, including on kava, feral pigs, agricultural mechanisation, agricultural inputs and cocoa. Low productivity and inconsistent supply remain a major challenge for many farmers, which is largely due to traditional, low-yielding farming practices. Agricultural firms continue to be impacted by migration-induced labour shortages, and many farmers are affected by feral pigs damaging crops.
Climate Change
Vanuatu is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, including rising temperatures and sea levels, unpredictable rainfall and intensifying cyclones. In 2024, Vanuatu experienced another major natural disaster—a severe, magnitude 7.3 earthquake that caused significant damage in the capital, Port Vila. The earthquake adds to the impacts of climate change and cyclones on economic growth in the previous year.
Businesses and government need to find ways to increase their resilience to disasters, so that Vanuatu can escape continuing disaster recovery cycles, which hamper longer-term economic planning and growth. The Government of Vanuatu
has set ambitious targets under its Nationally Determined
In 2024, MDF supported a range of activities to promote climate change adaptation and mitigation:
