Primary goal
Improve food security, including labour use efficiency, and resilience of agricultural systems in Timor-Leste to meet the livelihood needs of rural householders and it focuses on the scaling and adoption pathways of technologies and knowledge developed in Al-Com 1.
Key expected outcomes
- Understanding and improving the Timor-Leste soil resource MAF upskilled in soil profile descriptions.
- Creating opportunities to intensify agricultural production of rural households in Timor-Leste.
- Soils database for three livelihood zones, and benefits of improved knowledge of soils, intensification and diversification to women in agriculture.
- Creating opportunities to diversify agricultural production of rural households in Timor-Leste with sandalwood systems.
Progress
This project commenced in Jan 2023 and is set to be completed in Jan 2027.
Lead researchers
- David Lee (Sandalwood part of the project)
- The University of Western Australia
Project funded by
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
Sustainable Development Goals
This project works towards these UN Sustainable Development Goals:
- SDG 1: No poverty
- SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities
- SDG 15: Life on Land
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