Annual reports
CoSPSI news
Seaweed Farmers Workshop in Wagina
14-18 July 2008
The seaweed farmers workshop was successfully attended by some 30 farmers from Cookson, Arariki and Niku villages in Wagina (Choiseul Province).
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The farming of warm water red seaweed Kappaphycus alvarezii better known by it’s trade name: Cottonii has been undertaken in South-east Asia for a little over 30 years where it has become the main cash crop for many rural dwelling coastal communities who farm the seaweed for the global food industry who utilise the weeds gel forming properties in numerous food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic products.
Technical reports
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Honiara, Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands
Commercialisation of Seaweed Production
The Commercialisation of Seaweed Production in Solomon Islands (CoSPSI) Project was started in July 2005 and is financed by the European Union STABEX Fund (98). The overall objective of the Commercialisation of Seaweed Production in the Solomon Island (CoSPSI) project is to improve the socio-economic wellbeing of isolated rural communities by diversification of the cash economy, and the involvement of women in the primary productive sector.
The project
The CoSPSI Project – Stabex Project Number ST 98/009 – is being implemented by
Gillett, Preston Associates Inc., under a “direct labour” service contract with
the government of the Solomon Islands (SIG), represented by the contracting
authority, the National Authorising Office. The supervising Ministry is the
Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources. Project implementation is monitored
through a Project Steering Committee.
