Some of the plants they relocated include seedlings of essential crops like breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis), giant swamp taro (Cyrtosperma merkusii), coconut and medicinal herbs.

For the Carterets, coastal erosion, destruction of sea walls and inundation by salt water means that most of the small gardens of swamp taro and vegetables upon which families depend for food are no ...

The drier highlands along the centre of the island support one of the oldest farming communities in the world, surviving on a limited diet of domesticated wild root crops such as yams and taro ...