Environment and Sustainable Development Unit ESDU-AUB

The Environment and Sustainable Development Unit (ESDU) is a regional R&D center hosted at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences of the American University of Beirut since 2001. ESDU has been promoting, through large community development projects. sustainable rural livelihoods all over Lebanon. The Unit focuses on participatory development and capacity building through knowledge management and sharing, appropriate technologies, and impact analysis with particular attention to smallholder farmers, women, and youth in the rural areas. ESDU has been engaged in various regional capacity building, rural livelihoods, and food security initiatives. In 2013, ESDU established the Food Heritage Foundation (FHF), a non-profit organization, aiming at promoting Local Food Systems and conserving Lebanons collective memory and indigenous knowledge through the preservation, documentation, and revival of Lebanons traditional food heritage. ESDU has been working closely with FHF to ensure ...