{"id":7592,"date":"2014-07-03T14:39:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/?p=7592"},"modified":"2014-07-03T14:39:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:39:42","slug":"palestinian-farmers-a-last-stronghold-of-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/2014\/07\/7592\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Farmers: A Last Stronghold of Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/al-shabaka.org\/sites\/all\/themes\/alshabaka\/logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"102\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Economic Issues:\u00a0Palestinian Farmers: A Last Stronghold of Resistance<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">al-shabaka policy brief<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>1 July 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/al-shabaka.org\/people\/guest-author\/vivien-sansour\">Vivien Sansour<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/al-shabaka.org\/people\/policy-advisor\/alaa-tartir\">Alaa Tartir<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Overview<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like many farmers around the world, Palestinian farmers are the victims of a top down neoliberal development approach that attempts to dispossess them of their land and seeds in service of banks, multinational corporations, and agribusiness giants. An instrument of this approach has been the Palestinian Authority\u2019s creation of industrial zones that will entrench Palestinians\u2019 dependency on Israel and sustain the current detrimental economic framework.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this policy brief, Guest Author Vivien Sansour and Al-Shabaka Program Director Alaa Tartir give voice to a number of farmers currently trying to withstand these challenges. They focus in particular on farmers in Jenin and Jericho, where two large industrial zones are currently being constructed, and propose measures to help farmers regain their sovereignty and stay on their lands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read More:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/al-shabaka.org\/policy-brief\/economic-issues\/palestinian-farmers-last-stronghold-resistance?page=show\">http:\/\/al-shabaka.org\/policy-brief\/economic-issues\/palestinian-farmers-last-stronghold-resistance?page=show<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic Issues:\u00a0Palestinian Farmers: A Last Stronghold of Resistance al-shabaka policy brief 1 July 2014 Vivien Sansour, Alaa Tartir Overview Like many farmers around the world, Palestinian farmers are the victims of a top down neoliberal development approach that attempts to dispossess them of their land and seeds in service of banks, multinational corporations, and agribusiness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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