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Economic Help for Palestinian Women Farmers

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Economic Help for Palestinian Women Farmers

Revitalizing Olive Oil Farming in the West Bank

A source of national pride, the olive industry constitutes 15% of income generated by the agricultural sector in Palestine. There are 3,000 olive farms with nearly 66,000 olive tress in the project location in Asira Al-Shamaliya alone, an area north of Nablus in the West Bank.

Sustainable Practices by West Bank Women Farmers

Project experts will train 750 Palestinian women farmers in proper cultivation techniques for the care of live trees, pruning, fertilizing and ploughing.

Olive Oil Potential for Women's Livelihoods

35% of Palestinian women and their families work as olive pickers and in the transport of olives to presses that process olive oil and related products. Palestinians have lost their jobs in Israel and are coming back to the land as a major economic refuge.

Sorting Olives -- A Traditional Women's Work

Palestinian women and their families have found substinence income in the agricultural sector in the West Bank, including olive farming. At issue is sustaining this traditional activity & its transformation into an attractive, profitable, competitive industry.

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Thanks to 18 donors like you, a total of $5,320 was raised for this project on GlobalGiving. Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.

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