New Zealand Institute for Pacific Research
Report
Pacific food systems: a policy review
This review seeks to apply a food systems approach to analysing non-communicable diseases (NCD) policy developments in the Pacific region.
Report
Opportunities to improve vanilla value chains for small Pacific Island countries
This report focusses on the vanilla sector in the Cook Islands, Niue and Samoa. The research highlights how the vanilla sector is being developed in these Pacific Island countries and the linkages that are being established to regional and/or international markets.
Report
Private sector investment in the Pacific: final report
This report examines the drivers of, and barriers to, private sector investment (both foreign and local). In addition, the research seeks to understand the benefits and costs associated with different forms of private sector investment - ranging from large scale foreign through to small scale...
Survey
SINOPSIS - The Solomon Islands National Ocean Planning Spatial Information System
This report outlines the spatial decision support tools developed to help planners and policy makers in the Solomon Islands identify sites suitable for seaweed cultivation.
Case study
Promoting cultural heritage for sustainable tourism development: Madang, Papua New Guinea
Tourism has been identified as an important economic industry for Small Island Developing States (SIDS), including Papua New Guinea (PNG). One of the important niche markets for tourism is cultural heritage, which involves “travellers seeing or experiencing built heritage, living culture or contemporary arts” (Timothy...