SDG 2.5.1

IUL provides access to food security and sustainable agriculture knowledge/skills/technology to local farmers and food producers

One way of dealing with issues of food insecurity and hunger in the community is through the courses that the University teaches in its different faculties. In the educational curriculum, it has incorporated many health and nutrition-related courses in order to educate students in nutritional education and train them on how to face the challenges related to nutrition…

SDG 2.5.2

IUL provides events for local farmers and food producers to connect and transfer knowledge

Among the events that IUL offers for the community, which seeks to connect and transfer knowledge about agriculture, and in light of the expected increase in water scarcity in Lebanon as a result of climate change, the University organized a symposium on “The water crisis in the Bekaa”, in cooperation with the Bekaa Water Foundation and the Italian Civil Voluntary Work Association,…

SDG 2.5.3

IUL provides access to university facilities to local farmers and food producers to improve sustainable farming practices

The agricultural sector is considered a productive and important sector in the Lebanese economy. Agriculture also provides job opportunities in rural areas and a major source of income…

SDG 2.5.4

IUL prioritizes the purchase of products from local, sustainable sources

The university seeks to support small farmers by helping them and putting the lands that they own at their service and also by purchasing agricultural crops from them and using them in the university’s restaurants to meet the students’ food needs. It also secures the university’s needs of bread from small producers…