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Credit: CIMMYT / Alfonso Cortés (CC BY-NC 2.0)

26 May 2020

Fall armyworm in Papua New Guinea: how big is the risk?

by Michael Bourke and Sim Sar

Akito and his family in Poros, Timor-Leste

26 May 2020

Young in rural Timor-Leste: poor, hungry and bored

by Akito Ximenes and Michael Rose

Tuna purse seine vessels (Credit USCG Press CC BY 2.0)

27 April 2020

COVID-19 and its likely impact on the tuna industry in the Pacific Islands

by Transform Aqorau

Doctors and nurses at Dili hospital, Timor-Leste: “We’re staying at the hospital, you stay at home and pray for us.”

1 April 2020

Fake news and other viruses: helping our seasonal workers stay safe

by Michael Rose

RSE worker briefing on coronavirus by Seasonal Solutions Cooperative Ltd Operations Manager, Ieremia Lemuelu.

25 March 2020

Border closures and grounded international travel – implications for Pacific seasonal workers

by Rochelle Bailey and Charlotte Bedford

Keeping our supermarkets stocked with fruit and vegetables will be a key policy challenge in the coming months (Credit Shelley Pauls on Unsplash)

21 March 2020

COVID-19 and the horticultural sector: addressing the pending labour supply shortfall

by Henry Sherrell and Stephen Howes

Employers can now recruit from overseas for some low skilled occupations, such as irrigationists (Credit Michele Walfred Flickr CC BY 2.0)

6 March 2020

More agricultural visa by stealth

by Henry Sherrell

1 November 2019

The horticulture labour shortage myth

by Henry Sherrell

30 October 2019

Two contrasting survey results about labour shortages in horticulture

by Richard Curtain and Stephen Howes

17 October 2019

The backpacker visa is morphing into an unregulated agricultural one

by Beth Orton and Stephen Howes

Credit: The PNG National

8 February 2019

A field of dreams? The PNG-Philippines rice deal

by Grant Walton, Elena Ryan and Imelda Deinla

Workers from Vanuatu at Dotti Farms in Innisfail, Queensland (Credit: LMAP, Cardno)

17 December 2018

Employers want to recruit directly

by Carolyn Peterken and Russell McKay

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