FAO West Bank and Gaza Strip Newsletter - October 2008

FAO's main objective in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is to provide a safety net for food insecure farming/herding households whose traditional livelihoods are endangered and whose coping mechanisms are overstretched.

Food security information and analysis is also a key area for FAO in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, promoting inter-agency cooperation to address social protec-tion concerns.

FAO is currently managing a portfolio of eighteen current or pipeline projects across the region, benefiting more than 8000 house-holds, or 48,000 individuals, and with a budget totalling over US$ 16,000,000. These projects are funded by the Governments of Italy, Japan, Norway, Spain and Canada.

Inside this newsletter:

• Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools
• Khayrat Blady in Gaza
• Sheep Delivered to West Bank Women Farmers
• APIS Revitalization
• Olive Harvest
• Wells Project Update
• Bedouin Communities Receive Emergency Fodder