Oxfam’s Economic Justice (EJ) Programme in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) is implementing several market system development (MSD) projects focusing on the agricultural sector. Small-scale producers (SSPs) face several constraints that include the following: high prices of agricultural inputs, limited extension services, weak post-harvest capacities (sorting, grading, packing, and storing) and limited access to markets. Through different interventions implemented under the EJ programme, the issues of post-harvest handling and marketing were tackled through facilitating the establishment and operationalization of four packing houses – three in the West Bank and one in the Gaza Strip.
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