News, Stories And BLOGS
Long term connections to Canada
In late August 2019, the Canadian Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor- Leste, Mr. Peter MacArthur, met with Mateus Maia, Acting Director for RAEBIA. They shared information on the current community..
SAPIP Underway
The Sustainable Agriculture Productivity Improvement Project (SAPIP) underway as Watershed Management Councils and Sustainable Community Agriculture Development Plans are established. In the SAPIP program for the Tono watershed, RAEBIA is..
Farmers Knowledge Being Documented and Shared: the characterization of cultivated and uncultivated c
At the community seeds banks under the RAEBIA-Timor Leste program with USC Canada (www.usc-canada.org), the farmer committees are assembling seed catalogs with detailed characterization of cultivated and uncultivated crops. This..
Review of Community Seed Bank in Fadabloko: support from USC Canada and Seeds of Survival
In May, the program manager from USC Canada visited RAEBIA to review the growing network of Community Seed Banks mobilized by RAEBIA, and supported by USC Canada...
New office July 2017
The RAEBIA Team a the new office on Rua Audian, Dili...
“Change can happen”: School students learn at Cristo Rei
RAEBIA Timor-Leste has hosted its first school excursion at its Cristo Rei resource centre with 17 students from Dili International School's year 9 class today. Building on the students' study..
Bumper harvest at “desert” Cristo Rei site
Seven agriculture students from Dili's Universidade de Paz have successfully harvested their first vegetable crops today in a ceremony at the previously bare site of RAEBIA Timor-Leste's Cristo Rei resource..
Government and diplomats endorse RAEBIA Timor-Leste’s approach to forestry development
RAEBIA Timor-Leste’s signature community development model has today been endorsed as best practise approach by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries at its quarterly development partner meeting. At an open..