Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
FAO-Subregional Office for the Pacific Islands
Publication Year:
2008
Publication Place
Apia, Samoa
Physical Description:
59 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
36630
Legacy PEIN ID:
76637
General Notes
Available online
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Climate change - Impact - Marshall Islands
Agriculture - Climate change - Impact - Marshall Islands
Climate change - Impacts - Food security - Marshall Islands
Abstract
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has identified the development of subsistence agriculture as a key strategy for the support of its rapidly growing population. The most important food crops are copra, breadfruit and pandanus. These crops used to be abundant during their seasons but harvests are reported to have been disrupted by climatic extremes such as typhoons and droughts in recent years. Prolonged periods of drought over the past twenty years caused changes to the water tables which in turn affected taro and breadfruit production during the period. This situation is expected to worsen with future climate change and has the potential to seriously affect the governments strategy for the development of the subsistence agriculture sector.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
FAO-Subregional Office for the Pacific Islands
Publication Year:
2008
Publication Place
Apia, Samoa
Physical Description:
59 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
36630
Legacy PEIN ID:
76637
General Notes
Available online
Record Created: 18-Jun-2010
Record Modified: 20-Sep-2022