Pacific Soils Portal (PSP)
Fiji
Developed by Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, the Pacific Soils Portal is a web based digital initiative which provides information and knowledge on Pacific soils, their health and uses for Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga and Tuvalu. It provides policy makers and farmers with the information, knowledge and advice to grow crops that are best suited to their soils. The PSP contains information such as 1) find map reports of location and whereabouts of different soils 2) information about the role different soil types play 3) crop suitability and matching crops to soils 4) Sustainable soil nutrient management 5) Background information on soil formation and 6) Resources (soil reports, maps, publications and useful contacts).
Lead (category)
Multi-partners
Name of initiative lead (and partners)
Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research (MWLR)#Pacific Community’s Land Resources Division (SPC-LRD)
Categories of Digital initiative deliverables
Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery
ICT products/solutions and services by category
Digital Rural Services
Digital Agriculture
Non ICT products and services (deliverables)
Business and governance structure
It started as a collaboration between Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research (MWLR) and the Pacific Community’s Land Resources Division (SPC-LRD) and was endorsed by the Heads of Government Departments from 23 PICTs at Heads of Agriculture and Forestry Services (HoAFS). More recently it was supported by the Pacific Soil Partnership which united New Zealand, Australia, and 15 PICTs as a regional node of the FAO Global Soil Partnership (GSP - http://www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/en/). This support lead to a 3-year project “Soil management for resilient agriculture in Pacific Islands funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), lead by CSIRO with collaborators from MWLR, SPC-LRD and five PICTs (Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati and Tuvalu) that included funding to develop and release this Pacific Soils Portal.
DI ICT-deliverables format
Web-based platform
Mobile applications
Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)
Farmers
Government
Agribusiness / private organization
Extension agents
Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders
Digital Initiative development Stage
Fully functional. Institutional-governance structure in place
Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries
Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)
Regional
Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati and Tuvalu
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital solution