Regenerative Agritourism Pathway Recognition Program
May 27 @ 19:30 – 20:30 EDT
Regenerative Vanua supports Vanuas (Customary land holding community’s) to diversify into markets such as regenerative agritourism, regenerative gastronomy, regenerative value chains, and payment for ecosystem services through the Regenerative Agritourism Pathway Recognition Program (RAPRP). Regenerative Vanua sees the potential of Vanuas not as destinations but as educational and transformational experiences connecting visitors with regenerative knowledge systems in the Pacific. Reframing tourism as an opportunity to strengthen and share culture and community through regenerative transformational and educational experiences based on regenerative farming and food systems, rather than as a commercialised, visitor-centred business operation which contrasts with the way tourism has been managed in the past.
The RAPRP was developed through Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research (ACIAR)-funded research and incorporates planned agricultural practices that ensure the land of each participating community is not being depleted by harmful agriculture practice, whilst following the pathway, soil, water, air and biodiversity should be improved. There are also set agritourism practices that ensure the Vanua is not being depleted by over-tourism/negative human impact or impacting on food security. These application tools enable landholders and communities to collect their own data to show progress against the RAPRP standards. This data managed by Regenerative Vanua can also be used to access direct financial support from Government and private markets to support a transition to regenerative practices and ensure immediate and long-term resilience.
Facilitated by GAN’s Regenerative Agritourism committee, this webinar will be hosted by Dr Cherise Addinsall ACIAR Project lead for the RAPRP, alongside Alasdair Smithson from Organic Knowledge, Laurana Rakau Tokataake, Operations Manager Regenerative Vanua.