The International Conference on Land and Agriculture

New Delhi , India28-29 Jan 2014

Razan Zuayter Arab Group for the Protection of Nature APN

Arab Network for food Sovereignty

Palestine: a case study

Palestine: a case study

Palestine: a case study

By 20128% of the area of

historic Palestine0% of the surface

water and less than 15% of the ground

water in the West BankWas left to indigenous

Palestinians

A story of land theft :Palestine

Current Situation in the West Bank

Area A

Area B

Area C

Natural

Reserves

17.7%

18.4%

60.9% 3%

Abu Ghneim Settlement

Before

After

•Settlements (203)

•Bypass roads (Jews only).

•Apartheid wall (767 Km)

Current Situation in the West Bank

3,000,000 Trees have been

uprooted from the year 2000 up to this date

Systematic Uprooting of Trees and livelihoods

Destruction of Agricultural lands

Destruction of Infrastructure

Targeting Animal Farms

The last harvest

The Million Tree Campaign

Replanting 1,750,000 Trees

Planting despite oppression

•Governments- Lacking sovereignty

•Double standards at the international level

•Aid & Funding • Divided Arab civil society on the national ,regional and international level

•Arab Spring

Challenges

•The regional level :_

Regional Integration

(ANFS) Arab Network for food Sovereignty

Way Forward

•South - South Cooperation

- Action not reaction - Unconditional funding

-Common strategies common slogans

Way Forward

• The International level

•International Working group on Conflicts, wars & Occupation.

Way Forward

Thank you !