Nasser Abufarha

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Nasser Abufarha

Nasser Abufarha is a Palestinian-American anthropologist and social entrepreneur . He is the founder of Canaan Palestine and the Palestine Fair Trade Association- a network of small scale family farms organized under fair trade and organic production, active in 52 villages across the West Bank with 1500 members.

He was born in 1964 in Al-Jalama, a small farming village near Jenin, at the northern tip of the West Bank. He currently lives in his village in Palestine.

After first studying in Canada, he traveled to the United States, where an earned his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Wayne State University in 1989. Abufarha went on to earn a PhD in Cultural Anthropology and International Development from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2006.

In 2004, Abufarha developed the first internationally recognized standard for fair trade olive oil and established the Palestine Fair Trade Association. He also established , a healthy lifestyle brand of Palestinian speciality foods that is now the largest exporter of certified fair trade and organic Palestinian olive oil to the United States and Europe.^{[citation needed]}

His book, The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance, was published by Duke University Press in 2009.

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External links[]

• Profile of Nasser Abufarha at the Institute for Middle East Understanding
• Palestine Fair Trade Association - About Us
• Palcast: Nasser Abufarha on Fair Trade/Organic in Palestine
• Nasser Abufarha: Bi-Nationalism in Palestine-Israel at Znet.org

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