Friday, July 6, 2012

Announcing a new al-shabaka policy brief Farming Palestine for Freedom By Samer Abdelnour, Alaa Tartir, and Rami Zurayk


Announcing a new al-shabaka policy brief
Farming Palestine for Freedom

By Samer Abdelnour, Alaa Tartir, and Rami Zurayk
The impact of Israel’s occupation and colonization on Palestinian agriculture is well-known but little has been written about the effect of Palestinian Authority and donor policies. Guest author Rami Zurayk joins Al-Shabaka Policy Advisors Samer Abdelnourand Alaa Tartir to assess the degradation of the sector and the ways to cultivate local livelihoods, reduce aid dependency, and exert the Palestinian right to the land, even under conditions of settler colonialism and prolonged occupation.

For the full brief, read more or download by clicking the links below; for the executive summary, click here.
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