Buzuruna Juzuruna Association started with a small idea in 2016: to produce heirloom (non-hybrid, non-GMO) seeds and make them available to local communities in Lebanon as part of wider efforts to work towards food sovereignty.
Lebanon is deeply dependent on imports for sustenance: 80-90 percent of wheat is imported and farmers mostly rely on imported hybrid seeds. The ancestral knowledge needed to produce seeds has also been lost with a huge generational gap in Lebanon in the agriculture sector and little knowledge transmission.
With the help of friends and other local permaculture initiatives, Buzuruna Juzuruna Association set up a training curriculum with a focus on agroecology practice. It provides everything that is needed to begin food production (seeds, compost, seedlings, bio inputs, information).
In addition to this training, the Association has also:
This practice (agroecology, building circular economies, equality) is part of Buzuruna Juzuruna Association’s regenerative approach.