Agricultural Development

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.

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.

From the beginning, in 1968, ANERA has been aiding agricultural cooperatives in the Middle East. Just last year, ANERA rehabilitated eight cooperatives in Lebanon, while in the West Bank we began construction and rehabilitation at five cooperatives and 350 plastic house units for an equal number of households to produce exportable produce.

In 2007, we constructed 13 retaining walls, six culverts, two irrigation pools and two bridges in Lebanon. Additionally, in the West Bank, the recently asphalted roads to Jericho have improved the lives of farmers and families seeking access to Jericho's markets.