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Urban Women Agripreneurship in the Gaza Strip, Facts & Challenges

The aim of this fact sheet is to highlight the realities and challenges of urban women’s entrepreneurial work in the agriculture sector, or agripreneurship, in the Gaza Strip. It is an initiative by the Gaza Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP) & Urban Women Agripreneurs Forum (UWAF), committed to enhancing resilience in the face of crises and developing sovereignty and food sovereignty in Palestine through local food systems and urban agroecology practices, in light of heightened fragility in the agricultural sector resulting from the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis. This sheet is a reference for official and informal bodies of the interventions that develop the conditions of women agripreneurs in the Gaza Strip.

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Author: Gaza Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP)
Other authors: Urban Women Agripreneurs Forum (UWAF}
Organization: Gaza Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP)
Other organizations: Urban Women Agripreneurs Forum (UWAF}
Year: 2021
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Country/ies: Palestine
Geographical coverage: Near East and North Africa
Type: Fact sheet
Content language: English
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