In the crowded Jerash refugee camp, hydroponic horticulture allows residents to grow their own crops efficiently in an arid country – and provides a stateless people with an income. Idris Abu Saleh has gotten used to being known as the chemist who grows the best onions. Unable to find any work after graduation, now, aged 23, he is supporting his family of eight from his homemade hydroponic greenhouse in a refugee camp in northern Jordan. “People keep commenting on me being the pharmacist who sells onions,” said Abu Saleh. A resident of Jerash, the most impoverished of Jordan’s 10 UN-registered camps for Palestinian refugees, Abu Saleh had few opportunities available.

Source: The Guardian February 05, 2024 13:36 UTC