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The Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ)

Enhancing food security conditions of marginalized rural communities in the Southern Part of the West Bank

 

Funded by:

Canadian Foodgrains Bank

Contracting Party

Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)

Starting Date:

November 2011

Ending Date:

August 2014

The project will target 1000 Woman-headed and needy and poor households with limited income sources; households that have lost their main source of income due to the Intifada of nine targeted villages of Bethlehem and Hebron Governorates. It aims to increase crop production, self-reliance and increased food security status of beneficiary households compared to conventional methodologies Increase the percentage of project and non-project beneficiaries’ accessing better know-how, agro-practices, cooperation and drought mitigation procedures. The project further aims to: increase the percentage of project beneficiaries using the provided seeds and seedlings in their cultivations; increase the percentage of beneficiary farmers fertilizing their planted plots, control weed and pests; increase the percentage of beneficiary farmers adopting drought mitigation procedures, in order to improve their cultivations; increase the percentage of non-project farmers adopting the new drought mitigation techniques; and increase the cooperation and joint activities, experience change of among related stakeholder organizations .