A Farmer Returns to His Land in Syria

Country: Syrian Arab Republic Source: Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development Abu Khaled*, 58, was on the verge of selling his land. After more than a decade of displacement, he had returned to Taseel, in the western countryside of Dar’a, to find his home stripped bare and his olive trees uprooted, and years of drought had turned what remained into a growing debt. Today, with support from Acted, he is farming again. Um Khaled helps her husband from their home in Taseel — a routine of da