About Nasituan & Tanna Gardens
Nasituan is a locally run grassroots charitable association based on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, dedicated to strengthening community resilience through sustainable livelihoods, environmental conservation, and social empowerment. Working in partnership with local communities, Nasituan delivers practical, inclusive programmes that support food security, climate adaptation, disaster response and affirms indigenous knowledge systems.
A key initiative of Nasituan is Tanna Gardens, a community-rooted social enterprise that promotes organic farming, agroecology, and regenerative agriculture. Tanna Gardens produces high-quality, chemical-free coffee, roasted peanuts, and natural products while providing training, employment, and income-generating opportunities for local farmers—especially women and youth. Profits from the enterprise are reinvested into community development.
Together, Nasituan and Tanna Gardens are cultivating a more resilient and self-reliant future for Tanna, where people and nature thrive side by side.
linking farmers to markets
People have been sustainably growing crops on Tanna for millennia. Tanna Gardens aims to link that expertise to new markets ensuring that farming households get a fair return on their hard work and that employment opportunities are created through value adding and marketing local products. |
Providing trainings
Nasituan provides training to improve the quality and quantity of crops. Our focus is on climate change resilience, food security and sustainability while increasing profits for farming household |
Improving quality of life
Nasituan Association is a local charity. Some of the profits from Tanna Gardens are directed towards community development projects improving quality of life for families in Vanuatu |
