Initiatives

Initiatives represent collaborations of organizations, businesses and other groups to implement a multi-faceted alliance, partnership, coalition, hui, program or other shared effort.

Hilo Tropical AgTech Initiative

Hawai'i Foreign Trade Zone No. 9 (FTZ)

Establish a new facility and set of partnerships for identifying and introducing new agrifood technologies and innovations.

Ho'olako

The Food Basket

Hawaiʻi Island’s Agricultural Innovation Park and Food System Campus dedicated to pioneering innovative solutions to Hawaiʻi's food scarcity and dependency problems.

Upgrade former Miko Meats Facility

East Hawai'i Community Development

Upgrade former Miko Meats facility in Hilo to establish an AgTech Center of Excellence.

Expanded Agroforestry Production and Processing

Hawai'i 'Ulu Cooperative

Expand breadfruit agroforestry production and processing by upgrading the East Hawai?i Island processing facility.

Polynesian Crop Production and Education

The Kohala Center

Increase the availability of Polynesian crops through nursery expansion and educational programing .

Waste Management Value Chain Program

Ma'ona Community Gardens

Integrate closed loop waste strategies.

Agricultural Workforce Development Program

UH-Hilo

Public-private review and collective improvement of education, training and technical services needed to build the workforce needed to enable sustain growth in the Agriculture Sector.

Market Systems Development Initiative

Hamakua Institute

Train multi-stakeholder teams to identify high potential growth opportunities, establish market linkages to develop them and diffuse innovations that create a multiplier effect throughout the market system.

Business & Technical Assistance Program

The Kohala Center

Increase access to technical assistance in business development, marketing, and capitalization services for farms, processors and aggregators island-wide.