A Market With A Purpose

The Vanuatu Farmers’ Market exists for the following purposes;

• Strengthen the local economy by redirecting consumers’ food vatu to local growers and producers
• Propose the local consumers a wider range of local products, which is difficult to organize in conventional retail network with simple packaging, bulk quantity and also bundles.
• Promote the sustainable production, marketing, and consumption of local agricultural produce in season
• Foster trust between growers and consumers
• Educate the community about local growing conditions and food crops as well as sustainable and organic growing practices
• Incubate and support new farmers/producers
• Connect groups, organisations and businesses working on sustainable living solutions to the community

Transparency

The listed product prices on this website will go directly and in full to the vendors. In this difficult time we are not charging our vendor community any fee to be listed on the Vanuatu Farmers’ Market online platform. We raised funds to pay for the structure and already received the support of the Pacific Business Link and Pacific Trade & Invest China who covered 100% of the e-platform. We are looking for other funding opportunity to cover the full initiative and support the logistics. We started the market to support small farmers and local businesses and the local community and now is when we will need it the most.

A fee of 19,55% will be charged to cover the website maintenance, marketing and delivery costs.