Palestine
Wadi Farms Cooperative
An olive-oil cooperative in the northern West Bank scaled its processing line and passed EU export certification — and raised what its member households earn per season.
- Grant awarded
- €45,000
Measured
What changed
- Production capacity
- +40%
- EU buyers under contract
- 3
- Member households
- 62
- Seasonal jobs added
- 18
The story
Wadi Farms is a cooperative of 62 member households pressing olive oil in the northern West Bank. Its oil had always been good. What it did not have was the volume to interest a European importer, or the paperwork to satisfy one.
A €45,000 grant funded a second press line, stainless storage that keeps acidity stable through the season, and the food-safety certification work that had stalled twice for lack of a consultant who knew the standard. A LEAP export advisor worked with the cooperative through the audit and then through its first three shipments.
Production capacity rose by 40%. Three European buyers now hold standing orders, and the cooperative pays its members a higher per-kilo rate than the local market — which is, in the end, the only number that matters to the 62 households.
We were never short of oil. We were short of the certificate that let somebody in Europe buy it.
Your turn
This started with an application
Every business here applied to an open window with the same forms and the same criteria you can read today.