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Acknowledgments - This study was partly funded by the International
Development Research Centre, AMIDEAST, and Birzeit University We are
indebted to Khaled El Hidmi of the Union of Agriculture Work Committees,
who assisted us in organizing the farmers. We thank the farmers of the Jiftlic
region who helped make this study a success. Aqel-Abu-Qara, Joumana Naser
El Din, and Hanan Sa'adeh of the Center for Environmental and Occupational
Health Sciences (CEOHS) assisted us in the field and laboratory. We also thank
Mrs Zreikat for typing the report. This study would not have been possible
without the generous grant from the Shoman Foundation enabling CEOHS to
purchase equipment. The Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development
and the Ford Foundation funded some of the pilot projects that gave
impetus to this study.
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