Hofmann, R2024-07-152024-07-152023-07-062023-05-30https://hdl.handle.net/10182/17321This presentation discusses key outcomes of a recent collaboration in the Pacific region. The project partners included the University of Melbourne, the University of the South Pacific, The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), the Samoa Farmers Association, MORDI Tonga Trust, and Lincoln University. The project aimed at exploring the opportunities for using Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Intensification (CASI) practices in smallholder farming systems as an adaptive and potentially transformational climate change response in Pacific Island Countries (PICs). The project involved the evaluation of research, technological, social, and policy interventions required for future implementation and scaling of these more regenerative agri-food systems. The study was done for four farming systems in Samoa and Tonga and recommended various synergetic CASI interventions for each system, such as testing the best genetic materials (crops and livestock) with nutrient cycling to improve soil health, incorporating legumes as rotational cover crops during the fallow period, and implementing no-till/minimum till practice with the best crop genetic materials. The study concluded that CASI has the potential to provide substantial and multiple benefits to farming systems in PICs, including increases in productivity, financial, environmental, social and gender outcomes, as well as increased resilience to climate change and reductions in greenhouse gas emissiveness. The project also provided several recommendations for future work, such as directing additional resources to the field validation for implementing CASI in PICs, utilizing new partnerships and networks formed in the project, and closely aligning the learnings of this and further projects with agricultural education and with training providers in the Pacific Islands region.102 pagesConference Contribution - unpublished