Palestine: Gaza Foodways: Towards Resilient Women-led Urban Agroecological Food Systems
Funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) from December 2021-2024
Ahmed Sourani | Co-Founder & General Coordinator
Gaza Urban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP) | Gaza, Palestine
In this project we ask: what do food system innovations look like when they respond to the needs of, and are led by, women in Gaza?
The project aims to support a shift towards women-led agricultural research, practice and policy formulation for a just transition to diversified low-carbon urban farming systems and food sovereignty. As transdisciplinary research the project engages primarily with women producers and processors to articulate and frame their challenges, bringing them together with women researchers to stimulate knowledge co-creation for solution-building that amplifies their collective voices and results in a series of user-led innovations for urban agroecology.
Working with and across Gazan universities, the project will promote participatory action research practice and strengthen capacity and skills for gender-transformative transdisciplinary curricula, developing a professional urban agroecology diploma. And it will establish supportive intersectoral actor-networks mobilized around policy changes that connect up and strengthen policies for urban agroecology and food sovereignty in Gaza.
For more information on this collaboration between the Gaza Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP) and Urban Women Agripreneurs Forum (UWAF), the Palestinian Hydrology Group (PHG), the University College for Applied Research (UCAS) in Gaza, and the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) of Coventry University (UK),
Contact me or my colleague Georgina McAllister ad3054@coventry.ac.uk .
