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Timor-Leste
In Timor-Leste, around 75 percent of the country’s 1.2 million people live in rural areas where livelihoods depend on the farming of crops and livestock, largely of a subsistence or semi-subsistence nature.
More than half of the country’s children under five are stunted and 41 percent of the population live below the national poverty line. The Government of Timor-Leste has made combatting poverty and malnutrition a top priority since the country gained independence in 2002. The government has identified the development of a sustainable fisheries and aquaculture sector as a means of improving food and nutrition security and diversifying livelihoods.
Currently, only a small proportion of the people of Timor-Leste are engaged in fisheries and aquaculture. The 2015 census reports that 5 percent of household are involved in small-scale fisheries, and 1.75 percent are involved in aquaculture in 2016.