
Timor-Leste
Conservation Agriculture, Permaculture and Sustainable Fisheries Management
Overview
This project promoted the adoption of sustainable production techniques and the intensification and diversification of smallholder farming and fishing systems.
Beneficiaries
Smallholder farmers and fisherfolk
Partners
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Naterra Association, Conservation International, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Timor-Leste
Budget
$1,428,772
Duration
July 2015–June 2018
Key Results
1,600 smallholder farmers and fisherfolk adopted conservation agriculture, permaculture and sustainable co-fisheries management techniques; there were 26 to 58 per cent increases in yields from conservation-agriculture demonstration plots.
1,386 farmers, teachers, students, community leaders/work assistants, and Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries NGO extension workers were trained in permaculture techniques.
1,132 packages of farm tools and agricultural inputs were procured and delivered to farmer field school participants for the testing, validation, replication and scaling up of conservation agriculture practices; 7 sets of agri-food processing equipment, tools, containers, packaging materials, etc. were procured, delivered, installed and operational.
2 national policies incorporated conservation agriculture and sustainable land management issues, and 3 sustainable co-fishery management plans were adopted by stakeholders.