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Promoting Conservation Agriculture in Timor-Leste










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    Promoting economic inclusion of small-scale farmers through homegrown school feeding in Timor-Leste
    Supporting local agrifood systems through stable market linkages in Manufahi municipality
    2024
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    Timor-Leste is a small country located in Southeast Asia with a population of over 1.3 million people, of whom over 70 percent live in rural areas. Its territory is exposed to a wide array of natural hazards, including floods, droughts and earthquakes. The most recent estimates indicate that, in 2021, around 48 percent of the population was poor, and that the country had 22.3 percent prevalence of undernourishment between 2020 and 2022, with 45.6 percent of children under 5 years of age stunted in 2021. Climate change is expected to worsen the impacts of extreme weather, ultimately increasing poverty and inequality. In 2022, the Government of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste promulgated two decrees that established a solid normative framework to embed the homegrown approach in the Merenda Eskolar school-feeding programme, which is committed to the procurement of locally produced food instead of imported goods. This promising practice factsheet presents FAO’s efforts to operationalize the homegrown school-feeding model at local level in Timor-Leste. FAO implemented a pilot in 18 schools in the municipality of Manufahi, benefiting over 2 400 students. This intervention was part of a multicountry project on economic inclusion and social protection to reduce poverty in the context of COVID-19 implemented from May 2021 to December 2023. Among other objectives, the project aimed to increase the income and food security of vulnerable rural households and smallholders.
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    Timor-Leste Country Statement. Speech of H.E. Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Timor-Leste . APRC 35
    Agenda item 11: Prioritization of Country and Regional Needs, 3 September 2020
    2020
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    Special Report – 2021 FAO Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission (CFSAM) to the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste 2021
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    An FAO Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission (CFSAM) visited all main food producing areas in Timor-Leste from 27 April to 9 May 2021 to estimate the 2021 crop production and the import requirements during the 2021/22 marketing year (April/March). The Mission’s aim was to provide an accurate picture of severity and extent of the shocks that affected the agriculture sector in 2021 and identify the country’s main agricultural support needs until the next harvest. In particular, as officially requested by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF), the CFSAM assessed the impact of the tropical storm and floods as well as FAW and ASF outbreaks on the agriculture sector.

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