Field Coverage

Reafforestation and Dune Fixation in the Gaza Strip

1 September 1954

UNRWA embarked on a scheme to anchor the Gaza strip's drifting sands and make at least one-third of the clay plain beneath them available to cultivation by refugees. In cooperation with the Egyptian administration UNRWA crews have already set out a million potted mimosa seedlings in Government nurseries.
An agricultural expert examines the vegetation that stabilizes the dunes. September 1954.

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