Agriculture
Decades-old water dispute could destroy nation’s agriculture
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010DHAKA, 20 September 2010 (IRIN) – Ongoing wrangling over vital waterways that pass through China and India – the two most populous countries in the world – could lead to agricultural devastation further downstream in Bangladesh, experts warn.
The Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers – together one of the largest freshwater flows in the world – [...]
Tough times in distant Oecusse
Monday, May 17th, 2010OECUSSE, 17 May 2010 (IRIN) – Elisa Kefi and her 63-year-old sister brave the heat and sit on the side of the street selling nuts and small vegetables in Timor-Leste’s Oecusse enclave. “The government doesn’t really pay us much attention, but we still have to look for money to feed our families,” said mother-of-three Kefi, [...]
Poor storage adds to food insecurity
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010DILI, 26 April 2010 (IRIN) – Almost a third of Timor-Leste’s maize harvest is lost each year due to poor storage facilities, analysts say, fuelling food insecurity.
“This is a multi-faceted problem, but better storage containers could certainly mitigate the problem, provided people understand their benefits,” Paul Joicey, country director for Oxfam, told IRIN.
About three-quarters of [...]
Timor-Leste’s farmers start again
Friday, April 2nd, 2010Matt Crook visits Timor-Leste to see how farmers in the “coffee triangle” are benefiting from an initiative backed by the US Agency for International Development that will see new coffee trees distributed to 1,200 farms. The revival of Timor-Leste’s traditional coffee crop will be crucial for the country’s economic recovery
Guardian Weekly, June 15, 2009
Marcal Mendonca [...]