"Analysis. Gaza’s Food Sovereignty Crisis
In Gaza, the hungry forage for food while farmers and seed keepers struggle to preserve Palestinian agriculture
Gaza is experiencing famine, while over 80 percent of its cropland lies damaged or destroyed. But a network of farmers and seed keepers is trying to preserve what remains of Palestinian food sovereignty. After decades of systematic attempts to eliminate specific, localised forms of human knowledge, it has resurfaced in the struggle to survive genocide: Which wild plants are edible in the freezing rain of February; how to stretch flour with foraged herbs; or how to preserve indigenous seed varieties without refrigeration.
In the Gaza Strip, this knowledge was not fundamental to the dominant agricultural model before October 2023. Gaza had a semi-functioning, if severely constrained, food economy, consisting of local markets, commercial farming, and very limited import channels. Food sovereignty practices existed at the margins, like elsewhere, in the work of small organisations like the Gaza Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP), in the seed-saving habits of older farmers, or in the memory of communities that had already survived the dispossessions of 1948 and 1967."
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https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/54926/gazas-food-sovereignty-crisis
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