Project title:
Northern Gaza
Botanic Gardens.
Project summary:
Provide technical advice
on all biodiversity related aspects of the
suggested botanic gardens (e.g., plant collections and
distribution, and conservation,
research, and education facilities needed, …, etc.).
Donor: The
Agricultural Relief Committees, Gaza.
Project Start and End Dates:
Aug- Sept 2003
Organization’s Role:
Consultation: Provide advice on all biodiversity related
aspects of the suggested botanic gardens.
Project title:
Medicinal Plants as
a Source of Therapeutics for Acnes and Teeth
Bacterial Infections.
French Partner: Prof.
I. About, Laboratoire IMEB; Faculté d'Odontologie, Marseille,
France.
Project summary: The
project involved the study of selected plants used in
Palestinian
folkloric medicine for the treatment of acnes and teeth
infections, for their antimicrobial,
biochemical, and pharmacological characteristics. It also
included the isolation and
identification of the active compounds against
Propionibacterium acnes, the causative agent
of
acnes, and aerobic and anaerobic bacteria associated with tooth
pathology, and the study
of
pharmacological characteristics and biocompatibility, including
cytotoxicity, of active
compounds.
Donor: French Gov/
French Pal Joint Projects, MEHE
Project Start and End Dates:
1 Year (2002/2003)
Organization’s Role:
Technical planning and implementation
Project title:
Rehabilitation of
Aquatic Habitat in BERC-Til Botanic Gardens
Project summary: The
project involved the establishment of a pool in the
above-mentioned
gardens to function as a habitat for aquatic plants and fresh
water fauna.
Donor: PHG
Project Start and End Dates:
July-Aug 2003
Organization’s Role:
Technical planning and implementation
Project title:
Sustainable Use of Water & Improvement of Environment: Til Pool
Rehabilitation
Project summary: The
project involved the rehabilitation of a natural rain-fed pool
with a
storage
capacity of about 5,000 cubic meter of water in the western area
of Til village. The
project has
been centered on rain water harvesting, it increased water
storage capacity of the
pool to about
5000 cubic meters; provided a safe source of drinking water for
animals; provided
farmers and
the nearby BERC-Til Botanic Gardens with water for irrigation;
created an aquatic
habitat that
supports a good number of aquatic plants, birds and other
animals; and improved
the state of
the environment in the project area.
Donor: Oxfam GB
Project Start
and End Dates:
Oct 2003 – Feb 2004
Organization’s Role:
Technical planning and implementation
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On-going
Projects:
Project title:
Establishment of a
Community-Based Seed Bank in the Nablus District
Project summary:
A community-based seed bank (CSB) is being established in Til
village in the
Nablus District (northern West
Bank) to maintain and improve local crop accessions that will
ensure lasting food
productivity and availability, as well as increase source of
income in the
target local communities, and
enhance the diversities of traditional food crop varieties.
Donor: GEF / SGPP
Project Start and End Dates:
June 2004 – May 2006. Ongoing
Organization’s Role:
Technical planning and
implementation
Project title:
Setting up a New Hakooreh, NH in the Nablus District.
Project summary: The
project is centered on the introduction into the Palestinian
communities
in the Nablus
District a new more efficient productive agroecosystems, the New
Hakooreh, NH
(family microgarden). The
NH is a small-scale horticultural production package involving
the
utilization of
low-pressure drip-irrigation equipment designed for this
purpose, a combination of
annual and
tree crops and an
operating system, which allows the farmer to irrigate adequately
according to sound
scientific principles. This NH is also based on the fact that
the agricultural
system, which
utilizes solar energy most fully, is that which have a
year-round cultivation with a
dense crop canopy;
i.e., mixed tree and annual crops.
Donor: Oxfam GB
Project Start
and End Dates: Jan
–July 2005
Organization’s Role:
Technical planning and implementation
Project title:
Conservation of Medicinal Plants and related traditional
knowledge in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip
Project summary: The
project involves an ethnobotanic study of the Palestinian herbal
medicine in the West bank and Gaza. It aims at conserving
Palestinian medicinal plants and
traditional knowledge associated with their uses, promoting
public awareness regarding the
value of
medicinal plants and related traditional knowledge, and
documenting Palestinian
traditional knowledge regarding herbal medicine in the West Bank
and Gaza. It involves the
establishment of an ethnobotanic conservation site at BERC-Til
Botanic Gardens comprising
medicinal plants from Gaza and the West Bank.
Donor: GEF/ SGPP
Project Start and End Dates:
Sep 2004 – Sep 2005 Ongoing
Organization’s Role:
Technical planning and
implementation in cooperation with SDE, Gaza
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