As a deputy for His Excellency the Minister of Environment, Dr. Ahmed Obeidat, Adviser to the Minister of Environment and media spokesperson for the Ministry launched the project “Promoting home Aquaponics through environmental empowerment in the face of the Corona crisis”, which is implemented by the National Center for Environmental Justice with funding from the Ministry of Environment – Environmental Protection Fund in the Northern Jordan Valley
NCEJ: As a deputy for His Excellency the Minister of Environment, Dr. Ahmed Obeidat, Adviser to the Minister of Environment and media spokesperson for the Ministry launched the project “Promoting home Aquaponics through environmental empowerment in the face of the Corona crisis”, which is implemented by the National Center for Environmental Justice with funding from the Ministry of Environment – Environmental Protection Fund in the Northern Jordan Valley as a first phase of the project, the project targets four regions in the Kingdom to provide support to a selected group of the most affected small farmers in the targeted areas, the Northern Jordan Valley, Mafraq, Ma’an and Ajloun. The project aims to provide support to a selected group of 360 male and female beneficiaries.
The project is based on empowering and training families on Aquaponics in homes and owned agricultural areas, environmental marketing methods, raising awareness in the field of environmental rights and legal defence methods, and supporting the social aspect of families to be more productive for all participants.
This project comes within the plans to support the projects of the Environmental Protection Fund for civil society organizations active in the field of environmental rights, by going to implement financial productive projects using modern agricultural environmental systems, in order to adapt to emergency situations such as the Corona pandemic.
This project is considered among the objectives of the Environmental Protection Fund projects to support small farmers affected by exceptional conditions and the negative effects of climate change, and to achieve food security in the areas most affected by those climatic conditions.
The project will train the most affected small farmers in the targeted areas and introduce them to the mechanisms of hydroponics and environmental marketing, and how to use environmental legislation and laws to reduce the dangers of environmental pollution, so that this project will be a new beginning and the first of its kind to enhance local awareness of farmers and enhance their family incomes to face living challenges.
In addition to opening up to new ways of environmental marketing to support and develop the agricultural system using modern agricultural methods, and qualifying young people to find new job opportunities through this training.
Through this project, the National Center for Environmental Justice seeks to spread awareness about environmental issues and their impact in the short and long term, support development and sustainability in environmental and agricultural activities, and how to deal with emergency situations such as the COVID19 crisis.
