Cross Border Farmers Tour
Friends of the Earth Middle East “FoEME” organized a three days Cross Border Farmers Tour that started on the 22nd of June. During the tour, Farmers and Mayors from Jordan and Palestine visited Israel to learn from its experience in waste water treatment and reuse in agriculture.
Second Stakeholder Consultation Meeting for the Rehabilitation of the Jordan River Basin
Amman, Jo On another move towards the rehabilitation of the Jordan River Basin, Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) and its consortium partners from the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and Global Nature Fund (GNF) in collaboration with the Royal Haskoning DHV held its Second Stakeholder Consultation meeting on June the 26th.
MoU Signing Ceremony to Cement Bilateral Farmers Cooperation in the Region
Tamar, Israel On Tuesday the 24th of June, representatives from the Jordanian South Ghor Municipality, Tamar Municipality in Israel and Themar Agricultural Cooperative Society from Jordan in collaboration with EcoPeace / Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of a “Model Farm”. The Model Farm will serve as a center […]
BATTIR REGISTERED AS A WORLD HERITAGE SITE IN DANGER
June 21, 2014 EcoPeace / Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) is very glad to report that after many years of relentless work towards protecting the beautiful terraced landscape of Battir, yesterday afternoon UNESCO registered Battir as a World Heritage site in danger. Gidon Bromberg, Israeli Director at FoEME says: “at this difficult moment […]
Workshop on Implementing the Arab Peace Initiative at the Jordanian – Palestinian Level
Amman, Jo On Saturday, the 14th of June, 2014 representatives from Friends of the Earth Middle East “FoEME” attended a workshop on implementing the Arab Peace Initiative at the Jordanian- Palestinian level. The event that was organized by United Religious Initiative – MENA, a non-profit organization that aims at encouraging interfaith cooperation and inter-cultural understanding, […]
A PORTRAIT OF A RIVER
In 1845, Lieutenant William Francis Lynch of the United States and Confederate State Navies sailed on behalf of the US Hydrographic Office in an expedition to the Jordan River and the Dead Sea. Later, he wrote a book dubbed “Narrative of the United States’ Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea” where he […]
Changing the Course: Conflict Sensitive Project Cycle Management in Palestine
Organised by FoEME and conducted by ForumZFD On a dry Tuesday in Auja, a small West Bank village outside Jericho, the village’s traffic is doubled by 9 a.m. as cars pull in to the EcoCenter established by Friends of the Earth Middle East in 2010. Convening in the center’s main conference room, Palestinian non-profit […]
International Collaboration for the Rehabilitation of the Jordan River Tour
EcoPeace/Friends of the Earth Middle East organized and led an ambassadors tour to the Jordan Valley on Saturday the 7th of June, 2014. The purpose of the tour was to bring attention to the problems facing the Valley including Solid Waste Management, Sanitation, Agriculture and Farming Practices. FoEME, in this regard has produced a regional […]
المؤتمر الدولي لحماية المياه الجوفية
استضاف البحر الميت في 27-29 من شهر أيار المؤتمر الدولي الثاني لبرنامج حماية المياه الجوفية الذي تقوده منظمة أصدقاء الأرض الشرق الأوسط بالتعاون مع مجلس مقاطعة مالقا و الممول من قبل الإتحاد الأوروبي حضر المؤتمر عدد من المسؤولين من سلطات المياه والبيئة وكذلك رؤساء البلديات وغيرهم من ممثلي المجتمعات المحلية المشاركة و التي يبلغ عددها […]
“Protecting Ground Water” International Conference
On May 27-29, 2014, the Dead Sea played host to the second international conference of the “Protecting Groundwater” program. The program is led by Friends of the Earth Middle East together with the Malaga County Council, and funded by the European Union.