APN | Zoom  

29 November 2025

APN spoke at the People’s Conference for Palestinian Solidarity in Canada, organised by a coalition of movements and organisations committed to supporting Palestinian rights, including the Palestinian Youth Movement, Guelph 4 Palestine, and Students for Justice in Palestine. The conference brought together over 400 participants, reflecting an ever-growing global solidarity with Palestinians and engagement with issues of justice, human rights, and resistance against occupation.

In a session titled “Agriculture and Resistance to Genocide”, APN Research and Advocacy Officer Lisa Shahin discussed how food and agriculture have long been weaponised against Palestinians, and across the region more broadly. She outlined how the systematic control of land and resources functions as a tool of coercion, displacement, and collective punishment, and how APN’s programmes have emerged in response - standing with farmers, defending land, and strengthening local agricultural production against colonial tactics of displacement, annexation and replacement. Alongside APN’s work in Palestine and Lebanon, she also spoke to our programmes in Jordan to support small-scale farmers and advance food sovereignty.

Conference organisers highlighted that the event aimed to deepen dialogue, strengthen cross-community solidarity, and amplify Palestinian voices at a time when occupation, dispossession, and settler-colonial violence remain unrelenting.

APN’s participation reaffirmed its ongoing efforts to defend rights to land, food, and self-determination, as well as underscoring the role of agriculture as a vital line of defense in preserving Palestinian identity and steadfastness.