In the wake of natural disasters in the Pacific, governments and NGOs often provide victims with canned fish, rice and noodles to survive on until they can get back on their feet.
But a food manufacturing company in Vanuatu is providing a more nutritional, and locally-grown option to victims of Cyclone Donna in the country's north.
Fine Foods produces sealed packs of cooked root crops and meat.
They have a long shelf-life and the packaging can even be used to patch a leaking roof.
The Anglican Church has already purchased one-point-four tonnes of packs and sent them to affected areas ... and the government has asked for a quote to purchase more.
Fine Foods CEO Cynthia Wylie says the packs could also be stored in warehouses and pre-positioned in readiness for the next natural disaster.
Wylie told Pacific Beat that the minister of agriculture issued a letter of instructions that local foods are to be used wherever and whenever possible not the imported tin fish and white rice.
The packs have cassava or manioc and local pork.
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