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In July 2025, the Interagency Technical Working Group of the National Food Security Policy (NFSP) Reformulation held its meeting in Port Moresby that focused on discussing the updates and the procedure required to reformulate the upcoming Papua New Guinea National Food Security Policy. The meeting was hosted by the Department of Agriculture and Livestock at […] Source: Papua New Guinea Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Policy Support Program

PNG’s minimum wage has been K3.50 per hour since 2016, but the PNG government recently announced that it will rise to K5.00 per hour, effective January 2026. On 7 May 2025, Ms. Kristi Mhart from IFPRI was invited by the Institute of National Affairs (INA) to present recent findings on the declining purchasing power of […] Source: Papua New Guinea Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Policy Support Program

On 19th March 2025, Dr. Timothy Thomas, Ph.D. of IFPRI presented to Grow PNG Managing Director David Stewart and team at Grow PNG’s main office in Lae. The presentation focused on the use of the DSSAT crop model to examine the impact of temperature and precipitation on taro yields in PNG. Grow PNG has been […] Source: Papua New Guinea Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Policy Support Program