Improving food security and resilience of agricultural systems in Timor-Leste to meet the livelihood needs of rural householders.

Empowering smallholders in Ethiopia to maintain and improve current cereal crops, cropping practices, and their livelihood.

This project aimed to provide policy-makers with evidence-based economic analysis and advice so they can reduce constraints to pulses production and trade, and increase productivity in Pakistan.

New common bean genotypes with shorter cooking time, higher iron, and higher zinc content. Training African plant breeders in a new rapid breeding method.

The project aimed to identify practical methods to increase heartwood development in Vanuatu Sandalwood. Sandalwood offers farming diversity and an economic opportunity for Vanuatu. Heartwood formation and sandalwood oil deposition, determines sandalwood value. This project explored the regulation of sandalwood heartwood formation through the identification and implementation of chemical treatments. Knowing the genes and enzymes that produce sandalwood oil provided a basic understanding.

Methodologies and germplasm to better manage Faba Bean Gall disease in Ethiopia.

Improving the productivity, income and food security of smallholder farming households in the Eastern Gangetic Plains. 

Improving agricultural productivity and profitability in Timor-Leste by addressing technical and social impediments to annual crop intensification, and by establishing forage tree legumes and sandalwood as a sustainable income source and land management practice. 

Improving smallholder incomes in southern Bangladesh through productivity and profitability of dry-season cropping on non-saline land and, with improved saline-tolerant pulses and wheat, on saline land.

Seeds of Life (SoL) is a program within the Timor-Leste Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF) funded jointly by the Australian and Timorese Governments. SoL evolved from the recognition that a lack of good food crop varieties in Timor-Leste was constraining crop production and impinging on national food security. SoL aims to improve food security through increased productivity of major food crops.

​Legume production in Bangladesh has fallen significantly short of consumer demand becoming a major concern to national food security. Increasing the cropping intensity by replacing fallow with a legume between rice-rice cropping systems in western Bangladesh offered the prospect of increased legume production and improved farm household livelihoods. The project aimed to provide the research to reinvigorate pulse production in western Bangladesh through lentil and pea during rabi season (i.e. November to February) and mungbean during kharif 1 season (i.e. March to June).

Helping communities to develop adaptation pathways to agricultural practices towards climate-smart landscape management. Protecting livelihoods from climate while preserving environmental sustainability.