The city of Amman is the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and lies in the northern part of the Kingdom, covering an area of 1700 km2 with an estimated population of 2,200,000 inhabitants. Annual average rainfall is 275 mm. The poverty rate in Amman reached 8.5 percent in 2008 (Directorate of Statistics, 2010); 25 percent of poor reside in the capital and the unemployment rate is 12.7 percent (ibid). In this context urban agriculture can play a crucial role in positively affecting the standard of living of farming families and individuals. The region selected for the “From Seed to Table” (FStT) project is an agricultural valley (Iraq el Amir) in Amman, where farmers are organised in extended families (which form the basis for community and tribal relations). The women in these families take care of agriculture and daily household duties and seek to earn additional income through a local not-forprofit cooperative called the Iraq el Amir Women’s Association, established in 1993. The men are mostly civil servants or unskilled workers. Women have a strong interest and daily involvement in agriculture, but because of the type of funding available to them before the project began they had only developed their handicraft skills (weaving, pottery, paper making, ceramics, etc.) and had established a communal kitchen and a bed and breakfast facility through the cooperative. The members of the cooperative were struggling to keep these facilities operational and to find an income-generating activity that could sustain the cooperative in the long run.