This webinar will provide an insight into the evolution of the Palestinian people’s relationship with land, agriculture, and environment in Gaza through a historical lens. It will explore how the Israeli regime’s exploitative policies, from cheap Palestinian agricultural resources, to the exhaustion of Gaza’s natural resources and the utilisation of trade and export to reinforce a higher dependency on Israeli companies distorts the Palestinian people’s relationship with their land. The talk will also reflect on futuristic envisioning of Gaza’s agriculture considering these realities.
This event will take place on Monday, 17 July 2023, at 6pm (Gaza) time, 4pm in the UK.
To register to attend this webinar, please register here.
The event will also be made available on CBRL’s YouTube channel.
About the speakers
Asmaa AbuMezied is a gender and economic justice expert addressing issues of gender, economic development, and climate change in Palestine. With over 10 years of experience, her focus is on gendered economic policies, women’s rights in economic sectors, unpaid care and domestic work campaigning, inclusive markets, and feminist economics in fragile and conflict areas. She is the Al Shabaka Gaza Visiting Fellow, and her work is published in different spaces such as Oxfam policy and practice, Development and Gender Journal, Al Shabaka, and the World Economic Forum. She contributed to “Light in Gaza: Writing born of fire” which was published in 2022.