Luciana Villela

Seeds of Life - Australian Aid/ACIAR

Seeds of Life (SoL) is a program within the Timor-Leste Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF). We are funded collaboratively by MAF and the Australian Government, through Australian Aid and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). Centre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (PGB) within the University of Western Australia (UWA) is commissioned to coordinate our Australian-funded activities. The goal of the program is "Improved food security through increased productivity of major foodcrops", with the objective: "65,000 crop producing households (50% of the expected number in 2015 in Timor-Leste) have access to and are routinely using improved food crop varieties".