Dili – In rural Timor-Leste, who owns the land and who uses the land are often two very different things.
Pedro da Costa Xavier is a 24-year-old subsistence farmer from Liquica District. He lives about an hour away from Dili, the capital, in a thatched hut near the sea. He grows tobacco next to his house – he says vegetables do not grow in the thin, salty soil.