In light of developments in local and regional food security AC4D team members are working with partners from across the world to formulate a viable plan to enhance productivity within Jordan in support of our Refugee Feeding Program as well as expand our farmer support and training component into neighboring countries in the near future.
As we increase the number of greenhouses on our Jordan Valley farm, as well as the amount of acreage under cultivation, partners have expanded our capacity to deliver a greatly increased amount of produce to refugee families for the 2015/16 season.
Rainfed wheat trials will commence in 2016 in preparation for regional expansion. Trials will center around conservation tilling practices which have the capacity to more than double current production.
Our long term goal is to take what we learn and develop in the Jordan Valley and to transplant those advanced, and regionally appropriate technologies, into the most significant food production areas of the Levant and Tigris Euphrates Basin as security allows. This expansion will allow us to continue to provide relief to tens of thousands of refugee and internally displaced families throughout the region as we enhance farmers capacity to produce more, better quality, food at lower cost for the benefit of all.
Syrian Refugees go Hungry
As we increase the number of greenhouses on our Jordan Valley farm, as well as the amount of acreage under cultivation, partners have expanded our capacity to deliver a greatly increased amount of produce to refugee families for the 2015/16 season.
Rainfed wheat trials will commence in 2016 in preparation for regional expansion. Trials will center around conservation tilling practices which have the capacity to more than double current production.
Our long term goal is to take what we learn and develop in the Jordan Valley and to transplant those advanced, and regionally appropriate technologies, into the most significant food production areas of the Levant and Tigris Euphrates Basin as security allows. This expansion will allow us to continue to provide relief to tens of thousands of refugee and internally displaced families throughout the region as we enhance farmers capacity to produce more, better quality, food at lower cost for the benefit of all.
Syrian Refugees go Hungry
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| The beginning of a large plot of eggplant, a staple of the Middle Eastern diet |
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