GAME: www.3rdworldfarmer.com
This (link below) is an educational game to teach people the challenges faced by farmers in Africa/India – I saw it posted by an economics PhD student recently and got hooked!
Just a training idea: perhaps to get them interested, if any IT experts/programmers are out there, a similar game can be developed for young people in the Pacific but with a more positive angle. A game which demonstrates the choices you need to make to be really successful, and that it is possible to make good money from agriculture – but also the challenges (to be realistic).
This particular game is some sort of amalgamation of Africa and India and of course the issues faced in the Pacific are different, but it’s an effective way to get to empathise with farmers.
I don’t’ think SPC computers will support this (as it’s a “game” although a relevant one) but others will.
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Jonathan Bower
ODI Resource Economist
Land Resource Division
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
ODI Resource Economist
Land Resource Division
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
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Fiji
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