The two-page case study introduces the Gaza Urban and Periurban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP) and the Urban Women Agripreneurs Forum (UWAF), formed by GUPAP in 2019 to enable the community to drive change. It provides a brief characterization of Gaza’s food system, where most of the population rely on food aid and there are frequent supply chain disruptions – yet small farms and urban agriculture thrive as people assert their right to food.
GUPAP and UWAF introduce the Community-led Solidarity Marketing in Crisis initiative in 2022, which markets essential food items produced by women entrepreneurs in Gaza and delivers them to vulnerable families, in cooperation with NGOs. During the war, the initiative has been a lifeline; as of June 2023,18 tons of agricultural produce had been delivered to around 1,425 marginalized households throughout Gaza.
