Louise Marie Malaki-Faaofo is an ACIAR PASS-CR 2024 scholar from Samoa. She is happily married and blessed with five beautiful children. Mrs Malaki-Fa’aofo is an agriculture and animal science enthusiast with more than 15 years of experience. Her field of interest and career in agriculture and animal health was initially inspired by her enthusiastic and supportive father who was teaching agriculture engineering at the University of the South Pacific. Before joining ACIAR PASS-CR, Louise was the Assistant Chief Executive Officer leading the Biosecurity Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF) in Samoa. Her role provides high quality policy and technical advice to assist MAF in shaping its future policies in biosecurity in relation to animal health, plant health, human health and environment. She is grateful for the opportunity through ACIAR PASS CR to pursue her PhD studies that will significantly contribute to the development goals of Samoa and the Pacific region. Louise’s PhD research focuses on building social resilience of households by reviewing the focus and intersectionality of climate change, resilience and resilient development in agriculture, environment and land use to understand barriers and enablers of sustainable agriculture intensification in Samoa, Tonga and other Pacific Island Countries. Mrs Malaki-Fa’aofo acknowledges with much appreciation the support of her husband, children, parents, family and friends on this journey and is thankful to God for blessing her with this opportunity that will greatly impact her career and enhance her capabilities as a Pacific researcher.

• Sustainable Agriculture,

Adoption

Climate Change

Resilience

Plant Protection

PhD
Project Title: Building social resilience and food security through sustainable agricultural intensification in Samoa and Tonga.

Supervisor: Dr Sonny Lameta, University of the South Pacific
Co-Supervisor: Dr Viliame Iese and Dr Gayathri Mekala, University of Melbourne

ACIAR Project: CLIM/2020/186 Sustainable agricultural intensification systems for climate resilient development in Pacific Island countries.

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