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Youssef Saqr Abu Rabie, a twenty-four year old farmer from Beit Lahia, returned home with his family from the Jabalia refugee camp in early March, once the Israeli forces had retreated. There, he saw “indescribable destruction” of his city. Determined to reestablish life in the ruined North Gaza..

The Middle Draa Valley, a date palm oasis region in the southeast of Morocco, faced an unrelenting drought in the summer of 2021. The river running through Tamezmoute, a community of 21 Amazigh villages in the Draa Valley, was dry from May to mid-June. As a result, the villages’ date palms brown..

[The following working paper was authored by Ray Bush. It was published in December 2016 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FOA) of the United Nations and the Internationa..

5 June 1967 marks the start of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip. Today, nearly half a century later, the occupation continues to have a devastating impact on the daily lives of Palestinians. A graphic example of this impact can be seen through the Israeli restri..

IFPB Olive Harvest Delegation
Palestine
October 29 - November 11, 2011

This delegation will provide an opportunity to participate in the Palestinian olive harvest season — generally a time of great community activism, where people of all age..

Rami Zurayk, Food, Farming and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Spring. Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2011.

Is there a link between the decline in the availability of hearty village bread in Lebanon and the Arab revolutions of the past several months? In Food, Farmi..