APN | Jordan
26 June 2025
We launched our 2024 Annual Report, revealing a series of achievements and international advocacy efforts that strengthen our position as one of the leading active organizations in the Arab region. The report confirmed our continued implementation of programmes under three main pillars: rehabilitation, advocacy, and mobilization, achieving tangible results at local, regional, and international levels, despite increasing challenges in a politically complex environment.
Land Rehabilitation and Farmers Support
In Gaza, we implemented a large-scale project to revive farms destroyed by the Israeli occupation, planting 962 dunams with fast-growing food crops and restoring 17 agricultural greenhouses, supporting 422 farmers who provide for more than 2,600 individuals, in direct response to the famine caused by ongoing genocide.
In the West Bank, we continued implementing our Million Tree Campaign, launched in 2001 under the slogan “They uproot tree… we plant ten”. During 2024, we planted 99,458 fruit trees across 3,881 dunams, supporting 1,076 farmers. Since the programme’s inception, the total number of trees planted has exceeded three million trees.
In Jordan, the “Green Caravan” programme continued to expand by planting 31,136 fruit trees across various governorates, benefiting 695 farmers supporting nearly 3,600 individuals. The total number of trees planted through the programme has now exceeded 234,500 since its launch.
We also advanced the implementation of the Economic Empowerment and Food and Water Security project in the Jordan Valley, in cooperation with the International Islamic Charitable Organization – Kuwait, to support local agricultural communities. The project targeted 600 farming families in the northern, central, and southern Jordan Valley by providing them with 25,000 fruit trees, 5000 kilograms of vegetable seeds, extending 716,000 meters of irrigation networks over 375 dunams of agricultural land, constructing and rehabilitating 80 agricultural ponds, in addition to distributing 200 beehives and a project for drying vegetables and fruits in one of the southern Jordan Valley areas.
Influencing International Policies
On the policy impact front, we intensified our presence at 19 international platforms—including conferences, meetings, and seminars—where our top priority demands were the immediate cessation of the genocide in Gaza. At the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6), we broke protocol by openly calling for a ceasefire in Gaza during our speech at the opening governmental session. We also demanded the removal of the term “terrorism” from negotiations at the Committee of Permanent Representatives (OECPR) and highlighted the impact of occupation on Palestinian women and the systematic violence they face under occupation.
At the invitation of the French Senate, we presented recommendations urging pressure for legal recognition of the ecocide committed by the occupation as a crime, with criminal accountability for perpetrators. We also called for halting the deep involvement of French institutions in environmental violations and human rights abuses.
During the Seniors Officers meeting leading up to the 37th FAO Ministerial Conference, we emphasized the need to apply diplomatic, economic, and political pressure to break the siege and open crossings. We called for establishing a permanent operations room to document the occupation’s starvation crimes in Gaza, the West Bank, and Sudan.
At the 52nd session of the UN Committee on World Food Security in Rome, we delivered an opening speech on behalf of the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism (CSIPM), condemning the international community’s silence that allowed impunity for crimes against humanity.
In Malaysia, at the opening of the 7th International League of Peoples’ Struggles (ILPS) conference, we affirmed that the occupation uses food militarization as a tool of systematic genocide and contributed to drafting a statement on Palestine.
From Riyadh, we called for adopting land tenure policies that ensure justice free from donor conditions at the UNCCD COP 16 conference. We also invited the UN Habitat’s Arab Land Initiative to activate its role in Gaza and Sudan, enhancing participatory policymaking to confront colonial ambitions of occupation.
We sent firm messages to the Swedish Green Party and German civil society regarding their responsibilities toward Palestine, urging practical steps to enable Palestinians to preserve their lands and impose economic and political sanctions on the occupation, including trade bans.
We demanded an end to the use of starvation as a weapon of war at the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) summit and presented recommendations to counter settler-colonial strategies, support BDS campaigns, and pursue legal actions against Israel.
During our speech at the 10th IUCN Regional Conservation Forum (RCF) for West Asia, we proposed drafting a code of conduct for wars and conflicts that ensures monitoring of environmental violations and establishes mechanisms for accountability and compensation.
We launched a campaign with PCFS to demand the UN to pressure the occupation into entering seeds into Gaza. On World Hunger Day, we showcased the catastrophic impacts of ongoing genocide and war of starvation in Gaza.
We presented a research paper titled “Centering Syria in the EU Funding Response to the Syrian Crisis” as part of a study by the Civil Society Organizations Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE), addressing the triple nexus of humanitarian aid, development, and peacebuilding in conflict zones including Syria, Afghanistan, Mali, and Cameroon.
We met with an official delegation from Michigan, led by the Mayor of Dearborn, in a meeting hosted by the Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD), calling for urgent action to end the war in Gaza.
Regionally, we warned Arab countries against overreliance on food imports at the ESCWA forum, criticized double standards in the global system at the Arab Sustainable Development Forum, and stressed the importance of precise terminology when addressing challenges, emphasizing that what is happening in Gaza is genocide, not merely a crisis or conflict.
At the Arab National Conference, we called for action and support for relief and development projects in Palestine. We criticized the absence of international organizations and civil society during the Gaza war in a seminar by Taawon Association.
We called for forming a small committee within the Arab League’s Subcommittee on Hunger Eradication to monitor developments in Gaza. At the Arab Reform Initiative Conference, we called for holding Israel accountable for environmental crimes under international law.
At the Environmental Justice Conference for Palestine, we urged the activation of international resolutions, support for recognizing environmental genocide as an international crime, and enhanced cooperation to achieve food sovereignty and environmental justice.
Awareness and Mobilization: From University Halls to Protest Squares
During 2024, we conducted over 32 international awareness events, including seminars, lectures, and participation in environmental and human rights festivals and activities. APN Chairperson, Razan Zuayter, was honored as “Keeper of the land” during Palestine Week at the American University of Beirut. We also took part in activities inside European universities in support of Gaza, highlighted the impacts of environmental genocide on Palestinian women at international conferences, and lectured in the Riʿaya Program for young women organized by Al-Mujadilah Center under Qatar Foundation on understanding colonialism, settler colonialism, and the weaponization of food and environment.
In Jordan, the “If Only You Knew” programme engaged hundreds of students through awareness sessions and lectures. Additionally, APN signed memorandums of understanding with Al-Hussein Technical University and Petra University to enhance student volunteer work.
Wide Media Presence
The year ended with notable media presence, with more than 33 media materials published across over 100 local and international outlets in Arabic, English, German, and French. Our team participated in interviews and specialized interventions discussing the impact of the occupation on food security and the environment in the Arab world.
The report will be released in English during the month of July.