Lebanon Farmers Face Ongoing Conflict Crisis
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r/Lebanon shares a report on how continued attacks and destruction are affecting farmers in southern Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa Valley. Nearly 90% of surveyed farmers report sharply reduced food production since October 2023, underscoring the conflict’s lasting toll on livelihoods and food security.
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Lebanon's farmers fight to survive amid Israel's lingering war
Lebanon's farmers fight to survive amid Israel's lingering war
MENA
5 min read
Sarah Khalil
10 November, 2025
Nearly a year after the ceasefire, Israel's continued attacks and occupation have left Lebanon's farmers displaced and their fields destroyed.
Israel's war and continued attacks have devastated farming in southern Lebanon [Getty]
Nearly a year after the November 2024 ceasefire was meant to halt Israel's war in Lebanon, farmers across the south of the country and the eastern Bekaa Valley are still trying to live amid destruction and ruin.
Farmland lies abandoned, livestock have perished, and families who once lived off their crops are now surviving on aid.
What should have marked the start of recovery instead exposes the long reach of Israel's devastation and its lasting grip on Lebanon's agricultural heartlands.
A new joint report by Action Against Hunger, Oxfam, and Insecurity Insight, titled "We Lost Everything: The Impact of Conflict on Farmers and Food Security in Lebanon", documents the severe economic and humanitarian consequences of Israel's continuing violations of the ceasefire agreement.
The findings build on the agencies' earlier report, entitled "When Bombs Turn the Taps Off", which detailed Israel's destruction of Lebanon's water infrastructure, leaving more than 150,000 people without clean water months after the ceasefire.
A system in collapse
The latest report found that almost 90 percent of farmers surveyed have seen their food production plummet since October 2023, when the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel started.
For many people in Khiam, Bodai, Saaideh, Baalbek, and Aitaroun, agriculture has stopped completely, cutting off entire communities from their main source of income.
"Some farmers have lost everything, and this will have devastating repercussions not just for them and their families, but the communities they help to feed," Christina Wille, director and a founding member of Insecurity Insight, told The New Arab.
"The majority of interviewed farmers told u...
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