AMMAN — Italian Ambassador to
Jordan Fabio Cassese and
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative
in Jordan Nabil Assaf signed Sunday an agreement valued at 1 million euros to
build the resilience of vulnerable communities Jordan through the
Italian-funded “Sustainable Production and Utilization of Agro-natural
Resources” (SPUAR) project.
اضافة اعلان
The agreement was inked during
a ceremony attended by the head of the Italian Agency for Development
Cooperation in Amman, Emilio Cabasino, at the agency’s headquarters.
The project targets vulnerable
communities to improve their access to socioeconomic infrastructure in the
governorate of Maan, with a focus on soil and water conservation using
sustainable management tools to empower local rural communities.
“Italy’s partnership with FAO
focuses on actions to counteract the detrimental impact of resource scarcity poverty
and human development,” said Ambassador Cassese, who expressed pride at being
part of the project.
The project will be
implemented in southern Jordan, targeting the most vulnerable households in Maan,
providing an enabling environment for women's participation, by establishing
non-conventional water resources, FAO Representative Assaf said. “We chose Maan
because of its underdeveloped livelihoods and scarcity of water resources,” he
told
Jordan News.
The project aims to establish
a sustainable enterprise using the agro-natural resources of land, water, and
vegetation available in Maan, targeting a total of 120 households, including
female-headed households, youth, as well as people with disabilities. The
project also seeks to establish rooftop water harvesting systems and provide
the communities with food processing equipment.
As the agricultural sector
consumes around 510 million cubic meters (51 percent) of the annual available
fresh water, and demand for water increases yearly for various sectors, scarcity
of water resources has become a major challenge for Jordan and a limiting
factor for economic development, particularly for farmers whose livelihood
relies on land produce.
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