Olive trees have their homes around the Mediterranean Sea. Britannica says they are cultivated commercially in two world-spanning climate belts between approximately the 30th and 45th latitudes North and South.…
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Economics & Policy
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Along with other ministries, the Ministry of Economy and Trade (MoET) constitutes the administrative framework of enabling institutions for food security in Lebanon. To understand the MoET’s recent initiatives in…
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Circularity is an approach that has been intensively studied over the past ten years. It is based on three main principles: designing out waste and pollution; keeping products and materials…
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It was a sequence of electrifying experiences for a kid from the German provinces. It began withlooking in awe around the grand movie theater in no less than Leicester Square,…
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The Souk El Tayeb farmers’ market on Beirut’s Armenia Street has an established feel to it. There are many regulars to be seen on both sides of the small stands.…
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Markets were the first places where food security was achieved in a commercial context. It can be philosophically presumed that the other conduits of prehistoric food security consisted of charitable…
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Access to sufficient quantities of safe and nutritious food is a basic right, yet in Lebanon, such access can no longer be guaranteed. The three-year old economic crisis, which quickly…
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The latest chapter of Lebanon’s compounded and overlapping disasters has emerged in the shape of a bleak and multifaceted food crisis. As if a hard-hitting dose of COVID-19, the Beirut…
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The village of Kfarmishki in the western Bekaa hugs a hillside. Its apparent central intersection, whose main features include a roadside bench and a resilient donkey, takes three seconds to…
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Lebanon is a wealthy country. In principle. It has all sorts of assets – land, water, industry, skilled workers and competitive professionals, a deep education system, touristic and cultural treasures, seasonal…
