Kava Cultivation, Native Species Conservation, and Integrated Watershed Resource Management on Pohnpei Island

Kava Cultivation, Native Species Conservation, and Integrated Watershed Resource Management on Pohnpei Island

For many centuries, the kava plant, Piper methysticum, a series of sterile clones of a truly wild Piper species, has been used in several high islands in remote Oceania, including Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. Until modern times, its use on all of these islands was largely restricted to chiefly, priestly, and medicinal use. Because of colonial suppression and/or the use of othe...

Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED SHARK CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT MEASURE FOR THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN

An Indigenous Pacific Island Agroforestry System: Pohnpei Island

The indigenous agroforestry system on Pohnpei was studied using circular plots laid out in transect across 57 randomly-selected farms. Data were collected on species and cultivar presence, size, density, frequency, as well as soil type, slope, aspect, and other related information. Through farmer interviews, farm family demographic data was also recorded. Seasonality of major crops was observed...

Integrated Pest Management for ‘Awa (Kava, Piper methysticum)

Piper methysticum, a tropical, forest-dwelling shrub, called ‘awa (ah-vuh) in Hawaiian and also known as kava, is the source of a relaxing root extract esteemed as a ceremonial beverage throughout the Pacific region. It has traditionally been grown in relatively pristine native forest ecosystems by indigenous horticulturists who made extensive varietal selections and recognized the optimal envi...

Integrated Computing Environments for Watershed Management

This paper describes a new computing paradigm known as a problem solving environment ~PSE!, explores the role this new paradigm might play in watershed management and land use change analysis, and compares PSEs to similar technologies such as decision support systems and geographic information systems. A prototypical watershed management PSE organizes and unifies the diverse collection of softw...