Location
Liban
Timeline
2023 - 2025
Key theme(s)
Agricultural profitability, Job security, Food security, Socio-economic resilience
Partners
“We help farmers collaborate and build strong partnerships with market players, retailers, and service providers.”
Adaptation and resilience through partnerships in Lebanon
Lebanese agriculture is struggling due to limited modernization, weak support services, soil degradation, and inflation. This project strengthens the socio-economic resilience of small-scale farmers, associations, and SMEs, focusing on the Bekaa and Mount Lebanon regions.
Small agrifood businesses often lack the resources and tools to adapt their business models—especially in tough market conditions. Many smallholders in Lebanon work individually, making it harder to thrive. This project helps farmers organize into collaborative networks. We facilitate trust-based business relationships, enabling farmers to expand their collective farmland, share knowledge and resources, and adjust production to market needs—such as working with larger livestock populations.
iCRA and Ambero guide this partnership-building process. We train and mentor six regional agrifood trainers, who in turn support fifteen local coaches working directly with agrifood clusters: four wheat-barley clusters, nine legume clusters, and two greenhouse vegetable clusters in Zahlé, West Bekaa, Chouf, and Aley.
Together, we facilitate multiple cycles of action-based learning—moving through phases of planning, implementation, and peer reflection.
Together we can build things better
We believe in the transformative power of trust. Do you have a project in mind? Come and say hello. Tell us what's going well for you and what could be better. We'd love to connect and share how we can help.
