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NOTE 1: Innovation Platforms

inno p sFarmers, agri-business and service providers have to innovate continuously to adapt to an ever-changing environment (including markets, climate and resources). Innovation is about putting ideas that are new to a certain location into practice, and in this way changing the situation of those living in this area for the better. These “ideas” can be a new way of irrigating a field (i.e. a technology), a new way of organizing women farmers to bulk their produce (i.e. an organizational innovation), or a new policy that supports smallholders in getting bank loans (i.e. an institutional innovation). In agriculture, innovation often involves a combination of these different types of changes. For example: a new way of diverting water to fields requires that the farmers organize themselves in water use associations, which must in turn be supported by the local authorities.

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Timor-L'Este

Public Sector Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, MAF "The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is responsible for the design, implementation and assessment of the policies defined by the Council of Ministers for the areas of agriculture, forestry and fisheries. The Minister has three Secretaries of State, namely S.S. for Agriculture and Arborculture, S.S. for Fisheries, S.S. for Animal Husbandry. Among others, the Ministry oversees the following Departments: Agro-Commerce, Research and Special Services, Quarantine and Bio-Security, Agricultural Education and Training, Agricultural Community Development, Directorate of Policy and Planning National Directorate of Forests." National Directorate of Agriculture and Community Development Education and In-Service Training for Extension Staff Universidade Nacional de Timor Leste,Universidade Nasionál Timór Lorosa'e, National University of East Timor, UNTL Faculty of Agriculture Related Resources Austen Moore, Tom Dormody, Dawn Van Leeuwen (2011): AN Analysis of the agricultural sustainability of small-scale farms in lacluta sub-district of Timor Leste: a comparison of internal and external perspectives   New Mexico State University. List of Extension Providers  The following list shows an excerpt from the GFRAS Directory of Extension Providers for Timor-L'Este. Some of these entries may be specially marked for having more detailed information in the database of the Worldwide Extension Study WWES.