The Forest and land use composition of the Solomon Islands study in 2016, shows 7.77% of the total land area was ‘cropland’. Cropland itself comprises 2176 square kilometres. In 2016 the dominant crop type was mixed subsistence agriculture followed by coconut, mixed crops (including coconut overstory) and palm oil Cocoa and ‘other’ agriculture make up the remaining area under cultivation.
Jackson T.A., Marshall S., Mansfield S., Atumurirava F. 2020. Coconut rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros) [electronic resource]: a manual for control and management of the pest in Pacific Island countries and territories. Suva, Fiji: Pacific Community. 40 p.
Bourdeix R., Sourisseau J.M., Lin J. 2021. Coconut risk management and mitigation manual for the Pacific Region. Suva, Fiji: Pacific Community. 188 p.
Resources to quantify the copra production within the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
The Micronesia Challenge (MC) is an agreement initiated in 2006 by the
region’s political jurisdictions to conserve both marine and terrestrial natural resources. To
assess the success of the terrestrial goals of the challenge, the Micronesia Conservation
Trust (MCT) coordinated the compilation of a list of terrestrial measures and utilized them
to summarize data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest
Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program. The MCT and FIA programs added