Buzuruna Juzuruna Association

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:

  • Started movement building, driving around the country to meet communities, holding spaces for remembering ancestral practices and thinking about how to apply them now with the support of science.
  • Inspired contacts made through this work to set up a local seed production network (HOBOB) as part of efforts to make more seeds and knowledge available across the country.
  • Started a pilot project in Northern Lebanon to integrate olive groves within a more diverse and sustainable production system that includes for example vegetables, eggs, rain water harvesting and ‘wild’ zones.

This practice (agroecology, building circular economies, equality) is part of Buzuruna Juzuruna Association’s regenerative approach.

  • Community, Food
  • 2025
  • Established Projects
Search and filter projects
Photo: Buzuruna Juzuruna Association

Project information