This practice shows the services available to farmers by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of Timor-Leste provides in pursuing the agriculture sector's modernization. It describes the importance of Conservation Agriculture (CA) and the CA model applied in Timor-Leste. It [...]

This practice describes the step-by-step approach to promote conservation agriculture implemented in Timor-Leste. It also describes the conservation agriculture (CA) principles and steps in adopting the CA package. This practice was tested in Timor-Leste, a tropical warm agroecologic zone. In areas [...]

Highlights Significant rainfall deficits and high temperatures during the 2020/21 cropping season have negatively impacted cereal crop and pasture conditions in key producing southwestern and central provinces. Food insecurity in 2021 is expected to deteriorate in the affected areas, particularly in southwestern [...]

On top of a decade of exacerbated disaster loss, exceptional global heat, retreating ice and rising sea levels, humanity and our food security face a range of new and unprecedented hazards, such as megafires, extreme weather events, desert locust swarms [...]

Highlights Rainfall deficits since the start of the cropping season in northern Cabo Delgado and Nampula provinces have negatively affected crops, curbing cereal production prospects in 2021. The ongoing conflict in Cabo Delgado Province and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have [...]