Gaza
Gaza farmers battle shrinking land and constant threats to grow food
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Gaza's farming sector faces collapse as the territory's 2.1 million residents are confined to progressively smaller areas, The Guardian reported. Farmers are attempting to cultivate whatever patches of arable land remain, but reconstruction efforts have claimed lives and encounter persistent obstacles. Efforts to rebuild domestic food production have come at deadly cost as the population struggles to reduce dependence on external aid.
Agricultural recovery has become urgent as cultivators work marginal plots in a territory where arable land continues to shrink. The systematic loss of farmable territory has forced farmers onto ever smaller parcels, intensifying competition for resources already strained by displacement and infrastructure damage.
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