ADAP

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ADAP

• Agricultural Development in the American Pacific
• Preparing for opportunities!

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Overview

• Who we are
• What is our uniqueness and the need for our
  consortium
• Our early projects
• Our more recent projects
• Our traditional regional collaborators and new
  collaborators
• What issues are on the horizon for the American
  Pacific Islands

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ADAPs Vision

• ADAP enables sustainable environments, diverse
  economies, and strong communities.

ADAPs Mission

• We advance the viability and security of Pacific
  island agriculture and communities through
  collaborative programs that are culturally
  appropriate, socially acceptable, economically
  viable, and environmentally sustainable.

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What is ADAP?

• Founded in 1988 by the deans and directors of the
  5 Pacific Land Grants
• Funded by Congressional earmark via USDA-CSREES
• Working on issues common to at least 2 ADAP
  institutions

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ADAP Institutions
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What is so unique?

• The Pacific Land Grant consortium
• Collaborative,
• Sum greater than parts
• State, Territory and 3 countries
• 1862s but admitted between 1959 and 1982.
• Research intensive to community colleges
• The region
• Geographically isolated,
• Culturally diverse,
• Island communities
• less educational infrastructure

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ADAPs early years

• Projects were small in scope, yet were firsts
  for the region, and were building blocks for the
  future
• Communications
• fax machines
• PEACESAT regional communication
• Video teleconferencing
• computers
• Pest fact sheets
• Nutritional advice for each country
• Agricultural statistics gathering
• Entrepreneurial development
• Research help on the taro leaf blight and the
  banana black streak virus

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ADAPs early years

• And . . .
• Region-specific manuals on
• Safe chemical use
• Integrated pest management
• Crop protection
• Fruit tree propagation
• Trainings on
• Computer hardware, software
• Publications design and dissemination
• Swine artificial insemination
• Animal waste management
• Meetings with
• Agriculture directors in the region
• 1890 schools
• Caribbean schools
• Information consolidation
• The UoGs PEOPLE project - set up a website as a
  central place for Pacific-related fact sheets
• UH Librarys Traditional Pacific Island Crops
  website is a production information portal for
  critical crops

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And recently

• Looking to fund long-term, high impact projects,
  such as
• Professional development
• High school apprenticeships
• BS, MS, PhD support
• Leadership development
• 21 attendees of ESCOP/ACOP, LEAD21
• Articulation support for regional students at
  University of Guam - Pohnpei Accord
• Grant reconnaissance and advising
• Library services
• UHs library is gathering point for researchers
  in the region

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And recently

• Seed funding projects that can sustain themselves
• Healthy Living in the Pacific Islands
• Network of health scientists and educators
  working to reduce chronic food/exercise-related
  problems
• Received funds from USDA-CSREES-NRI, State of
  Hawaii funds
• Avian Influenza Field Training for Pacific
  Islands
• Only a small amount of ADAP funding put in, but
  our consortium allowed us to tap into Health and
  Human Services funds (110,000) to provide a
  leading-edge training

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And recently

• Seed funding projects that can sustain themselves
• Pacific Islands Distance Diagnostics
  Recommendation System (PIDDRS)
• Network of diagnostics software diagnosticians
• Now paid-for by the Western Plant Diagnostic
  Network
• Para-veterinary training
• Performed a needs assessment with regional
  partners
• Only dozens of veterinarians in the Pacific -
  need junior vets
• Joint project with the Secretariat of the Pacific
  Community (Fiji) and the University of the South
  Pacific (Samoa)
• Now funded by AUS-aid, NZ-aid, Taiwan

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We share the Pacific with international partners
- SPC, FAO, USP
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And, now we want to join with Alaska to make our
consortium even stronger
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Whats on the horizon?

• Food Security
• Health and Lifestyle Impacts
• Invasive Species
• Energy Security
• Global Warming
• The Pacific Land Grants, including Alaska,
  understand that these issues can most effectively
  addressed by pooling its human and fiscal
  resources together. We also understand that
  solutions for the region may differ significantly
  those of the contiguous United States.

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Thank you!