Community Development Workers Association (Inc) (CDWAI) have many relevant ‘demonstrations’ for visitors. This isn’t a demonstration area, rather a family garden that provides nutritious food, and opportunity to showcase sustainable technologies that work. After the 1997 drought the CDWAI team worked especially in the Baiyer valley, in Kompiam (Enga) and in Telefomin district to train […]
This is a kind of – To Whom it may concern message/post. Some words of experience that Dave and Ben would like to share with the wider world. You see, we two blokes – Dave the Kiwi and Ben the Aussie have been working in the New Guinea Islands on and off since the 1970’s […]
The CDWAI library is perhaps unique in PNG. It contains many resources for your group to make use of, written by international experts including Markus Muntwiler from Switzerland, Dr Dave Askin, Kiwi agronomist who worked in and around the PNG/Indonesia from 1988 right through to 2019 – with a break for cancer treatment and some […]
Over 2017 and 2018 CDWAI is partnering with the Tsak Rural Women’s Empowerment Foundation in Wapenamanda District, Enga Province in the PNG Highlands. The Tsak is in the foothills of the main central ranges at altitude between 1700 and 2400 metres, warm to hot by day, cool, often wet and cold by night. There are […]
The Activity has run a total of thirteen main workshops in Enga and Simbu. Many more follow up workshops have been conducted and this has allowed farmers to share with other farmers and the project trainers – their experiences. These have been really valuable. We have benefited greatly from plant materials from NARI (sweet potato […]
The NZMFAT funded team are increasing food resilience for village farmers in some of the simplest ways possible. The really poor in PNG remain isolated and good quality planting materials are hard to come by. Yams are not for everyone. The African yam is wonderful, but only in warmer areas. Luckily there’s plenty of warm […]