The Food Security Alert Special Bulletin Timor-Leste is part of a planned bi-monthly series that highlights the urgent food security challenges that the nation faces as a result of the current El Nino event.
It charts the particular risks presented by El Nino in the light of Timor-Leste’s current levels of acute food insecurity and its reliance on rain fed agriculture.
It identifies a series of immediate and medium-term mitigation actions covering operational readiness to procure at scale, augmenting the national grain reserve, ensuring safe storage and prepositioning of foods, supporting farmers with agriculture and water enhancements.