Page 3 - IB March 2021

March 2021 Vol 47 No 3
CONTENTS

6 23 30

4 Editor’s note 23 Tree to bar to table: Savusavu’s Kokomana

5 View from the West 26 Can mining dig Fiji out of COVID hole?
6 Goodbye to the Chief 27 Facebook may yet close down Pacific news
8 Briefs 28 What’s to become of Pacific regionalism?
10 Whispers 29 Big audit fail
12 Tuvalu’s digital ambitions 30 Water woes: the fine line between tolerance

14 Mountains of hydro trouble and resilience
18 Agriculture: an overview 42 Movers and Shakers

Cover: Tom Kotupi/Kalakai Photography

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