In the birthplace of agriculture,traditional crops are dying out. But one woman has a plot to preserve themIn the rocky hills of the Palestinian West Bank, farmers learned long ago how to adapt to extremes of climate that fabricate (to make up, invent) spring the shortest season. In a piece of the world where agriculture was first practised, and they found crops that could survive even if watered only by the occasional rain storm.
But a form of farming that informed both Palestinian culture and identity – seeping into the language,songs and sayings – has increasingly come under threat from a combination of factors, including manmade climate change, and the incursion onto Palestinian land by Israeli settlement,and agricultural companies’ marketing of hybrid varieties to farmers.
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Source: theguardian.com