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Book (stand-alone)Agricultural producer organizations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
An assesssment of their agribusiness capacities and institutional enviroment
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No results found.Strengthening agricultural producer organizations (POs) and cooperatives has been recognized as a key way forward to support farmers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS) and, in turn, promote food security, income generation and private sector development. Agriculture in the WBGS is characterized by smallholdings; there are just over 110 000 of these, and 90 percent are classified as small or medium-sized. the annual report on states that have limited or absent governance capability and are vulnerable to conflict or collapse. Yet, few would deny the extreme fragility of the WBGS given the conflict situation, a deadlocked political process and failing state and institutional performance. Access restrictions to natural resources, movement restrictions affecting goods and people, a longstanding economic food-access crisis, high unemployment rates, the breakdown of livelihoods, the COVID-19 pandemic and insufficient institutional capacity to respond have all negatively impacted the lives of the population. The key challenge is therefore how to increase the effectiveness of support for POs in an environment where citizens do not suffer only from poverty, economic exclusion and inequality but experience high levels of repeated or cyclical violence amidst weak support institutions and poor governance capability. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetFAO-CIDA partnership - From responding to shocks to building resilience in the West Bank and Gaza Strip 2013
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No results found.In the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS), recurrent conflict and restrictions over natural resources, markets and services are depriving families of their basic needs for survival and placing their ability to cope under severe strain. Food security and livelihoods have been directly impacted by controls on the movement of people and goods; impediments to construction and infrastructure investment; confiscation of land and natural resources; and the direct destruction of homes, crops, livestock as sets and infrastructure. Unable to produce food or earn income, many are becoming dependent on external aid. Small-scale farmers, herders and fishers in the WBGS are among the hardest hit populations, despite the potential of agriculture to reduce reliance on imported food, minimize vulnerability to international price hikes and increase economic access to food by enhancing employment and income. The loss of Palestinian land, limited access to markets, destruction of key agricultural assets (i ncluding water resources), and the separation of farmers from their fields and fishers from the sea continue to sever the rural poor from their livelihood. -
DocumentFood Security and Agricultural Livelihoods Cluster. Plan of Action for Northern Uganda 2009
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No results found.The Northern region, which is identified by official statistics as trailing behind the central, western and eastern regions in terms of poverty reduction, has experienced multiple and severe shocks including drought, civil war lasting for over 10 years and loss of cattle to Karamojong raids. The signing of a peace agreement between the Government of Uganda (GOU) and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and initial implementation of terms bears hope for Northern Uganda. It is in this context that t he 2008/09 Cluster Plan of Action (PoA) for Northern Uganda has been developed. The PoA is the result of a three month process of field consultation and analysis on food security and livelihoods with national and international NGOs, UN agencies, government representatives and civil society. In terms of scope of interventions, the PoA aims to create and promote the conditions for addressing root causes of livelihood erosion by linking short term/immediate actions with longer term measures and considerations. Thus the Plan proposes a set of balanced responses that aim to protect, rehabilitate and diversify the livelihoods of pastoralists, agro-pastoralists and farmers in northern Uganda. In that respect, the document is meant to complement long-term development strategies and focuses on the range of emergency, recovery and rehabilitation interventions needed for the whole of the North (Karamoja, Teso, Lango, Acholi and West Nile). Implementation of the PoA will be through partnerships between government, UN agencies, NGOs, civil society and the private sector. The selected option is based on a pro-poor and community self-reliance approach as the most sustainable way to achieve productivity growth and improve use and access of natural capital. In areas with low agricultural potential (Eastern Uganda – Karamoja), livestock systems are the basis of livelihoods. In areas with higher agricultural potential (Northern and Nile provinces), where farmers could pursue high-value li velihood opportunities, use of improved technologies will be supported to raise productivity growth.
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