Commercialisation des produits agricoles palestiniens

National Workshop ENPARD, 2017/04/11, Ramallah (Palestine) Synthesis note. ENPARD South initiative (European Commission)Under the initiative taken by the Palestine Trade Center – PalTrade, the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), and the European Union (EU) to study the potential of Palestinian fresh fruits and vegetables and herbs in the European markets. To that extent PalTrade conducted a market intelligence research on the Palestinian Fresh Fruits and Vegetables and Herbs products and their potential in European Markets

Communication Behaviour: A Struggle Against Illiteracy in Eastern Indonesia

The illiteracy phenomenon is a trial that requires effort in order to defeat it. The children of Kadi Wone village, East Wewewa District, Southwest Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia attempt to defeat this phenomenon by engaging in their education and studying. However as this is deemed insufficient, children may choose to join a reading centre (Taman Bacaan Masyarakat) called Dyatame. The social circle of Dyatame reading centre provides an opportunity to enhance interest in reading and learning. The purpose of this study was to reveal the meaning of reading in terms of it being a resource to fight illiteracy and further, to study the communication behaviour created through interactions in the social circle of Dyatame reading centre. The results of this study reveal that children can be empowered with learning spirit in the fight against illiteracy. This motivation can also build their capacity through an understanding of the meaning of reading, as a source of insight and an information tool. This study also envisages that this learning process can shape communication behaviour, verbally and non-verbally in both positive and negative ways

Unwilling to change, determined to fail: donor aid in occupied palestine in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings

Since 1993 the international community has invested more than $24 billion in ‘peace and development’ in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). That aid was meant originally to support the Oslo Peace Process through economic development. However, neither peace nor development has been realized, and both seem increasingly unlikely. While examining donor operations, priorities and the ‘aid-for-peace’ agenda, this article investigates whether patterns in oPt donor aid have changed following the Arab uprisings of 2011. Building on 28 original interviews with Palestine aid actors, it was found that patterns remain unchanged and that donors remain transfixed on a long failed ‘Investment in Peace’ framework that was designed for economic development by the World Bank back in 1993. By comparing these research findings with the literature on aid to Palestine, this article argues that donors are not ready to alter a framework dominated by policy instrumentalists who emphasize pre-determined normative values over actual results, quietly trading financial inducements to Palestinians to forgo political rights within a ‘peace dividends’ model. Meanwhile, critics of the existing aid framework remain largely ignored and have little influence on aid policy, in spite of two decades of instrumentalist failure to produce peace or economic growth using the existing model