Fiji 2020 Agriculture Sector Policy Agenda 2014.

The goal of the agriculture development agenda is to build Sustainable Community, which alludes to the rural and urban communities as the national government’s primary responsibility to ensure food security alongside the primary economic goal of increasing income and employment opportunities in the rural communities. This underlying goal is to establish a diversified economically and environmentally sustainable agriculture economy. To attain this purpose, five agriculture development objectives must be attained: 1) to build modern agriculture as a system of producing, processing, and marketing crops, livestock, and aquaculture products; 2) to develop integrated production, processing, energy, and transport infrastructure support system for agriculture; 3) to improve delivery of agriculture support services; 4) to enhance capabilities to generate fund and investment through foreign and private public investment; and 5) to improve policy formulation capability within the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) and its partner institutions. The Animal Health Direction aims to develop prosperous, efficient and sustainable animal health and production systems to produce healthy animals and safe products for food security and income generation.
Each of the objectives has corresponding set of interrelated strategic actions to be carried out. The strategic actions to achieve the five key result areas are as follows: a) Build modern agriculture in Fiji as an organized system of producing, processing, and marketing crops, livestock, and aquaculture products; b) Develop integrated production, processing, energy, and transport infrastructure support system for agriculture; c) Improve delivery of agriculture support services; d) Enhance capabilities to generate fund and secure investment through foreign investment, public private partnership, and other innovative business arrangements; e) Improve project implementation and policy formulation capability within the MOA and its partner institutions;
3.3 The MOA aims to bring about a change that promotes demand driven approaches as an integrated objectives for all programs such as: i) enhance livelihoods of people in the rural areas and outer islands of Fiji; ii) ensure sustained and secure access to food, and; iii) enhance poverty reduction through appropriate programs. These include increase in market access opportunities and services that will provide needed benefit to rural communities in rural and outer islands.
The animal health program direction in Fiji must gear toward efficient and sustainable animal health and production systems and producing healthy animals and safe products for food security and income generation. This inclusive approach to agriculture development must be supported by adequate investment and the application of sound technology and management systems.
Climate change agriculture activities focus on the management of natural resources. In areas where soils are prone to water-logging, new drainage techniques can get rid of flood waters more rapidly; while in dryer villages particularly the outer island rainwater harvesting is important. More effective management of soil carbon, precision application of fertilizers and nutrient, the use of energy-efficient machinery all play a part in the community. The primary goal of all the interventions is to help farmers to be prepared and ensure better productivity when facing climate change thus ensuring food security. More important, however, is that farmers are also contributing to the broad goal of climate change agriculture, which is to decrease Green House Gas (GHG) emissions.