Cold storage facility for food security, Palestinian Territories The local partner in this project has concluded that a considerable part of the harvests of fruits and vegetables is wasted because the farms do not have good storage facilities. A facility for cold storage of fruits and vegetables that rents space to small and medium size farms and traders would be the solution for this problem.The project will be located in Hebron, near the wholesale market for fruits and vegetables. Within the facility, fruits and vegetables will also be sorted and packed. Two refrigeration trucks will transport the produce from the farms to the cold storage.The applicant is Saeed al Saghir Group of Companies from Dubai that has a wholesale department for fruits and vegetables. The local partner is Al Jabari Company for Filling and Packaging from Hebron that is also active in trading fruits and vegetables. The partners will establish a joint venture company for implementing the project. The project answers to a bottleneck in the post-harvest handling of Palestinian fruit and vegetables, that was identified in the CBI value chain analysis for the sector.Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)The partners will at least pay living wages to the employees and will implement the ISO 22000 certification to the project. They are set to apply innovative environment friendly cold storage technology and will also apply environmental care on other aspects of the operations like disposing of waste in a responsible way. Workers safety will be taken care of and as many as possible women will be employed. Corruption will not be tolerated.Impact•	Employment and working conditionsThe partners intend to pay the future employees at least 100% above minimum wages, which can be regarded as well above living wages for the Palestinian Territories. Besides, the joint venture will also offer transportation, a meal and payment for pension / health insurance.•	Innovation / Transfer of knowledgeApart from renting the cold storage facility to farmers, the project will also offer transport, grading and packing services to the client farmers. Grading and packing service is not entirely new to the region as the local partner already offers this service now for potatoes and onions. The grading and packing equipment however will be for other products. Also, it is confirmed that conditioned transport is available but not really adapted to the needs of small and medium size farmers. The facility will be environmentally friendly using EU standard technology for cooling. The facility will be ISO 22000 certified.•	Chain effectsImpact on local suppliersThe main supplier will be the electricity company. Besides, suppliers of packaging materials will benefit from the project.Impact on local customers or consumersThe customers will be the small and medium size farms as well as colleague traders in Hebron. The project will have a considerable impact for them.•	Impact on the sectorThe partners intend to involve vocational training centres and an agricultural college in the training of the staff and offer internships.•	EnvironmentThe project will invest in environmental friendly technology which is more than is required. The waste of the project will be taken care of in an environment friendly way.•	Impact on food safetyThe project will considerably contribute to food security as a larger part of the harvest will stay in the Palestinian Territories, less products will perish, because they cannot be stored in a proper way and the project will stimulate farmers to produce more as they will be able to get better prices for their products. The project will establish a cold storage facility for fruits and vegetables that will rent storage space to small and medium size farms with a storage capacity of approximately 9,800 tons. In the storage facility, also grading and packaging services will