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Helping Farming Families in the Middle East

Farming is a long and proud tradition around the world. Throughout the Middle East olive trees, citrus trees, greenhouses and goats dot the landscape as symbols of a family's self-reliance and a community's source of jobs and food.

For decades, ANERA has benefited many thousands of Middle Eastern families and communities committed to the cultivation and maintenance of this great tradition. We seek to advance the health of family farms with services that range from assisting in the provision of machinery, such as tractors and olive presses, to the construction of market access roads as well as irrigation and rain water harvesting systems.

Water Resource Development

From cistern installation to setting up irrigation systems in parched landscapes, ANERA helps farmers make the most of scarce water supplies.

Farm-to-Market Roads

In the first decade of the 2000s, ANERA has constructed more than 100 kilometers of agricultural market access roads in the West Bank.

Improving Production

For nearly 40 years, ANERA has helped farmers increase production by building greenhouses, introducing new crops, and terrace farming.

Wholesale Produce Markets

ANERA builds markets that bring farmers together under one roof where they are able to sell their produce directly to consumers.

Planting Trees

In Lebanon, ANERA is helping farmers in the south replant land that was damaged during the 2006 war. Each farmers has 60 new fruit trees planted.

Date modified: August 2010

Household Food Security

In Gaza, in the wake of the 2009 bombings and the multi-year blockade, ANERA has been working to improve household food security.