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The First International Scientific Conference on
Rehabilitation of Agriculture and Food Systems (CRAFT)

"Gaza's Food System: From Systematic Destruction to Recovery, Resilience, and Sovereignty" 5-6 December 2026, Gaza-Palestin

The conference will focus mainly on the following scientific topics:

CONFERENCE THEMES
  • Destruction of Gaza's Food System and Value Chains

    This theme focuses on documenting the destruction and disruption of Gaza's food system across the full value chain. It includes input supply, agricultural production, animal production, fisheries, food processing, storage, markets, transport, food access, and consumption.

  • Plant Production, Land, Soil, Water, and Environmental Recovery

    This theme covers damage to agricultural land, soil contamination, water quality, irrigation systems, greenhouses, orchards, field crops, seed systems, nurseries, and possible strategies for rehabilitation and recovery.

  • Animal Production, Veterinary Medicine, and Fisheries

    This theme addresses the impacts of the crisis on livestock, poultry, dairy production, animal health, veterinary services, feed systems, vaccination, restocking, fisheries, coastal livelihoods, and the recovery of animal and aquatic food-production systems.

  • Food Processing, Food Safety, Nutrition, and Public Health

    This theme focuses on the destruction and recovery of food-processing facilities, household food processing, preservation methods, food safety, quality control, local food industries, storage, post-harvest systems, malnutrition, dietary diversity, maternal and child nutrition, emergency food assistance, and nutrition-sensitive recovery.

  • Agricultural Economics, Livelihoods, Markets, and Financing

    This theme focuses on the collapse of livelihoods, food prices, purchasing power, unemployment, market infrastructure, commercial food access, value-chain recovery, agricultural financing, and the economic dimensions of food-system recovery.

  • Resilience Modalities, Agroecology, Urban Agriculture, and Community-Based Food Systems

    This theme is concerned with the practices and systems that were able to continue functioning during the crisis. It includes urban agriculture, rooftop and home gardens, agroecology, indigenous and local seeds, low-input farming, composting, household food processing, community kitchens, women-led food initiatives, youth initiatives, and decentralized local food networks.