Jibal

Jibal is a not-for-profit association that promotes social and environmental justice in Lebanon. Its work focuses on ensuring the fair and equitable distribution of environmental and social benefits - and burdens - through collective organization, accessible knowledge, and regenerative principles. One of Jibal’s initiatives, Land Stories, is a storytelling project centered on Lebanon and the wider region. All stories portray people and the crops they grow, from wheat and apples to citrus and aubergine, on land that was central to the beginnings of world agricultural history. Many farmers in the region of Lebanon and the surrounding countries continue to use indigenous knowledge as well as other kinds of methods, including more recent and innovative ones, to develop their practices and as a way to adapt to ongoing crises. Each farmer and community works with specific methods and techniques, rooted in their different environments and surroundings. This forms the basis for a sustainable way of caring for the land. Land Stories is an attempt to document and share this knowledge.