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GAZA STRIP 2025 AGRICULTURE - FAO’s response to the post-ceasefire recovery in the Gaza strip

11 December 2024. Khan Younis, Gaza Strip. Water filled buckets sit near a water irrigation tube running amid tents housing displaced Paletsinians. The tents are located near the farm of Dr. Nabeel Abdulrahman Abu Shammala, a Palestinian land use and agribusiness expert with FAO. After the conflict irrupted in 2023, Dr Nabeel opened his farm to internally displaced Palestinians who moved into tents near the farmland. The farm produces vegetables used by the some 150 families living in its vicinity, who get to use the produce for their nutrition. The farm also shares its agricultural irrigation system to bring water directly to the families tents for personal use. According to the latest geospatial assessment carried out by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and UNOSAT between October and December 2024, 75 percent of the fields in Gaza once used to grow crops, and olive tree orchards, have been damaged or destroyed. Over two-thirds of agricultural wells (1,531 in total) are no longer functional. Livestock losses are at 96 percent, milk production has nearly halted, and only 1 percent of poultry remains alive. The 15-month conflict has caused acute food insecurity for the entire population of the Gaza Strip, with communities on the brink of starvation and more than 2 million people in urgent need of assistance due to the collapse of agricultural production. As a ceasefire agreement entered in action on 19 January 2025, FAO emphasised that immediate action must combine emergency relief with the restoration of local food production in the Gaza Strip.

12/10/2024

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