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Campus-Community Engagement: The Case of an Urban Agriculture Initiative at AUB

Sinno, Shalimar (9/21/2020)

Urban Universities’ missions and actions are reflecting on their role in contributing to potential solutions to local and regional socio-economic problems through their civic engagement missions. However, urban universities ...
A Critical Review of the Circular Economy Concept and Sustainable Development in Bamenda, Northwest Region of Cameroon

Yein, Chancelyne (9/7/2023)

It is assumed that deploying the Circular Economy (CE) model will result in high resource efficiency (Boon & Anuga, 2020). This study contrasts the appeal for CE with what Chambers (2014) refers to as outsiders. This paper ...
THE EFFECT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) ON AGRARIAN LIVELIHOODS IN NORTHEAST BAALBECK

Arja, Elias Milad (9/10/2021)

Agriculture in Lebanon is facing severe and considerable challenges ranging from generic ones associated with the lack of supporting functions and regulations, going in deep intro specific one from each and every specialized ...
The Enhancement of the Specialized Local Food System in Lebanon via Rural/Urban & Rural/Rural Linkages

Gholam, Nicolas (2/4/2022)

The study was conducted in Lebanon during the first and second quarters of 2021, after almost two years of political and financial unrest, and within a year through a global pandemic, to understand the situation of the ...
Food and Nutrition Security Governance: Gaps, Opportunities, and Policy Recommendations: The Case of Lebanon

Al Kadi, Rabieh (5/4/2021)

Food and Nutrition Security Governance (FNSG) has been widely addressed by different political, social, economic, and security disciplines. Since FNSG is a strategic practice and involves farmers, land, and economic wellbeing ...
Hydroponic Agriculture in Lebanon: A Window for Food Security and Rural Development

Haddad, Rona (8/23/2021)

The following dissertation discusses the dire consequences of food insecurity in Lebanon while developing an agricultural solution based on the technical advancements of hydroponic systems. Lebanon is the perfect place for ...
NEGOTIATING AGRARIAN CRISIS IN THE LEBANESE MARGINS: THE CASE OF BAALBEK-HERMEL FARMERS

Al Ahmadieh, Hala (9/7/2022)

Despite its illegality, cannabis remains a profitable crop for small farmers. Its production remains concentrated in the South, where no market-distorting subsidies are provided. It is primarily an export crop that generates ...
Perceptions and experiences of community workers and Syrian refugees towards community kitchens in Lebanon : a qualitative study -

Ibrahim, Nadiya Mahmoud (2018)

Background: The Syria crisis and the huge influx of refugees to Lebanon since 2011 have greatly impacted the food and nutrition security status of both the Syrian Refugees (SRs) and the Lebanese host communities. Community ...
The Potential of Multi-Functional Agriculture in Lebanon’s Rural Areas

Al Zayat, Sara (5/18/2022)

Rural areas in Lebanon are facing several challenges in the agriculture and tourism sectors. The agriculture sector is responsible for a bulk of rural employment and is considered a major contributor to food and nutritional ...
The Relationship of Debt with Respect To Farmers’ Persistence in Farming Despite the Massive Challenges that Face them and Renders Farming Unprofitable

El Banna, Nagham (2022-09-14)

For thousands of years, farmers, especially in developing countries, have suffered debt. A phenomenon that has affected farmers’ livelihoods in one way or another. The purpose of this paper is to discover the reason behind ...
Rethinking rural development from a smallholders’ perspective : how has the commercialization of sugar impacted on rural livelihoods in Hoima, Uganda?

Bahati, Ibrahim (2019)

Over the years, the Ugandan government has continually promoted agricultural commercialization as a means to become a middle-income economy by 2020. In 2012, the current president himself made a remark that if all the 40 ...
ROLE OF MICROFINANCE ON SMALL-SCALE FARMERS AND DAIRY PROCESSORS: A CASE STUDY ON THE GOAT SECTOR IN WEST BEKAA AND SHOUF AREAS IN LEBANON

Khairallah, Lamisse (9/23/2020)

Microfinance, also microcredit, refers to a specific type of financial service aimed for customers with low-incomes and that do not qualify for commercial loans, and consists of lending money, usually in small amounts. ...
Rural Displacement and its Implications on Livelihoods: The Case Study of Inter-riverine Communities in Southern Somalia

Osman, Alinor (8/23/2021)

Displacement has been frequent and prevalent in Somalia since the 1970s; few years after Siad Barre came to power. The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Somalia is quite staggering. About 2.6 million Somalis ...
Rural Youth and Higher Education: Implications on Livelihoods and Civic Engagement

Zeidan, Nour Yehya (9/18/2021)

While there is extensive literature discussing the impact of higher education on youth livelihoods highlighting the return to education, very few studies examine the sophisticated interlinkages between higher education and ...
SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT OF FARM PRACTICES IN KHERBET QANAFAR USING THE WATER-ENERGY- FOOD-CLIMATE SYSTEM APPROACH

Bou Said, Rania (9/16/2022)

In this study, sustainable development is defined through achieving rural community development, and ensuring environmental well-being, under climate change, and is attainable through a system thinking approach. The ...
SUSTAINABILITY OF FAMILY FARMING IN THE BEKAA AND THE INCLUSION OF YOUTH: DAMASK ROSE VS. SMALL RUMINANT PRODUCTION

El Dirany, Ghida (2/4/2022)

Introduction: Family farming as defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is the involvement of all family members in the farm activities. Family farming could take different shapes and can be defined differently ...
A Systematized Review of the Contribution of Social Networks to Agroecological Knowledge Transfer in Farming Communities

Israel, Tracy Pierre (9/16/2022)

The impact of human actions on the environment is enormous, it reached a planetary scale. One of the solutions proposed for solving the unsustainability of global agriculture and food systems is agroecology. Human behavior ...
The effect of protected areas on rural communities : Jabal Moussa biosphere reserve case study

Karam, Sarah Samir (2019)

Protected areas (PA), especially biosphere reserves (BR) that follow participatory approach, are considered effective instruments for the conservation of the world's habitats and for rural development. However, their impact ...
The waste management value chain in West Bekaa : contributions to labor markets and rural development.

Assaf, Rami Sami (2018)

Rural Lebanon is being depleted with a large number of the population living in urban areas in search of better incomes and life. The West Bekaa, a rural area, doesn't skip the rule. The area is poor, is losing its ...
Water and livelihoods in the coastal and inner plain of Akkar, Lebanon.

El Korek, Nour Tarek (2018)

Recurrent claims about the demise of water resources in Lebanon have risen for the past eight of years, ever since the onset of the Syrian civil war. Numerous triggers were considered, ranging from the inadequate infrastructure ...

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