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DOHA
Qatar Charity (QC) has signed two new cooperation agreements with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to support the wheat value chain in northern Syria for the third year in a row during the 2021-2022 season.
The two-million-dollar agreements, which are expected to benefit 92,000 people, are part of the ‘Support Wheat Value Chain in North West Syria’ project, which began in 2019 in collaboration with OCHA.
The project aims to contribute to improving food security and livelihoods in northern Syria where wheat is one of the most important crops, and contributes to enhancing food security, especially in light of a decade-long crisis.
The project aims to purchase 5,000 tons of wheat from Syrian farmers and distribute 4.6 million bundles of bread to more than 60,000 beneficiaries over a 10-month period, as well as restore 12 silos (each with a storage capacity of 1,000 tons) to increase the storage capacity of locally produced wheat.
The project also involves the rehabilitation of a bakery in Marea, Syria, to produce bread, as well as the establishment of a new bakery in Al-Rai, Syria, with a capacity of 5,000 loaves of bread per hour.
Furthermore, the project aims to produce more than 30 tons of locally improved high-quality and purity wheat seeds, as well as to support wheat cultivation by providing high-quality agricultural inputs to 550 farmers in order to plant 550 hectares, as well as technical assistance to carry out the best agricultural practices to increase wheat production.
“The signing of the agreement confirms confidence in Qatar Charity’s capabilities to implement the project to the fullest, as it has successfully been implementing the project since 2019, said Engineer Zakaria al-Mutair, the food security and livelihoods official at Qatar Charity’s Turkey office.
He also mentioned that the project began in its first year by assisting farmers, marketing wheat, and rehabilitating silos. The project’s second year saw the addition of wheat seed propagation to its list of activities. The activity of rehabilitating bakeries was added to the new agreement.
Al-Mutair emphasised that this project will play a significant role in restoring and protecting agricultural livelihoods, self-sufficiency, supporting wheat farming, and encouraging farmers to return to wheat cultivation.
It is worth noting that the year 2020 saw the emergence of new and complex social and economic challenges that exacerbated the food security and livelihood situation of families in northwest Syria, as the number of needy people experiencing food insecurity, in addition to those at risk of experiencing food insecurity, increased from 9.8 million to 14.2 million in Syria.
DOHA
Qatar Charity (QC) has signed two new cooperation agreements with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to support the wheat value chain in northern Syria for the third year in a row during the 2021-2022 season.
The two-million-dollar agreements, which are expected to benefit 92,000 people, are part of the ‘Support Wheat Value Chain in North West Syria’ project, which began in 2019 in collaboration with OCHA.
The project aims to contribute to improving food security and livelihoods in northern Syria where wheat is one of the most important crops, and contributes to enhancing food security, especially in light of a decade-long crisis.
The project aims to purchase 5,000 tons of wheat from Syrian farmers and distribute 4.6 million bundles of bread to more than 60,000 beneficiaries over a 10-month period, as well as restore 12 silos (each with a storage capacity of 1,000 tons) to increase the storage capacity of locally produced wheat.
The project also involves the rehabilitation of a bakery in Marea, Syria, to produce bread, as well as the establishment of a new bakery in Al-Rai, Syria, with a capacity of 5,000 loaves of bread per hour.
Furthermore, the project aims to produce more than 30 tons of locally improved high-quality and purity wheat seeds, as well as to support wheat cultivation by providing high-quality agricultural inputs to 550 farmers in order to plant 550 hectares, as well as technical assistance to carry out the best agricultural practices to increase wheat production.
“The signing of the agreement confirms confidence in Qatar Charity’s capabilities to implement the project to the fullest, as it has successfully been implementing the project since 2019, said Engineer Zakaria al-Mutair, the food security and livelihoods official at Qatar Charity’s Turkey office.
He also mentioned that the project began in its first year by assisting farmers, marketing wheat, and rehabilitating silos. The project’s second year saw the addition of wheat seed propagation to its list of activities. The activity of rehabilitating bakeries was added to the new agreement.
Al-Mutair emphasised that this project will play a significant role in restoring and protecting agricultural livelihoods, self-sufficiency, supporting wheat farming, and encouraging farmers to return to wheat cultivation.
It is worth noting that the year 2020 saw the emergence of new and complex social and economic challenges that exacerbated the food security and livelihood situation of families in northwest Syria, as the number of needy people experiencing food insecurity, in addition to those at risk of experiencing food insecurity, increased from 9.8 million to 14.2 million in Syria.
