Industrial zones are stripping farmers of their food sovereignty and increasing Palestinian dependen
![Some 50 percent of Palestinian households are suffering from food insecurity. [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/201481752054118734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Vivien Sansour is a guest author for Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. She is an independent writer, producer, and photographer from Beit Jala, the occupied West Bank. She is currently a doctoral candidate for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University
Industrial zones are stripping farmers of their food sovereignty and increasing Palestinian dependen
![Some 50 percent of Palestinian households are suffering from food insecurity. [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/201481752054118734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)