ELZUBI @ Al-Ghad: Global Heatwaves… Do They Constitute an Early Climate Warning for Jordan?

ELZUBI noted: “In urban areas, there is a pressing need to expand green spaces, improve urban planning, increase building efficiency, and strengthen health awareness programs to protect the most vulnerable groups—particularly the elderly, children, and outdoor workers.”

ELZUBI to Al-Ghad: Lack of Financing and Governance Keeps Local Cooperatives Trapped in a Vicious Cycle

ELZUBI concluded: the remedy must be systemic, not fragmented, and rests on several tracks—updating cooperative legislation to match today’s economy and facilitate mergers into viable entities; creating specialized financing funds with tools tailored to agricultural cycles and collective ownership rather than commercial lending templates; supporting digital transformation in management, marketing, and product traceability. He also called for building managerial capacity through professional executive management separating ownership from administration; linking cooperatives to value chains, food processing, and export; encouraging women’s and youth cooperatives as the highest developmental return; and forging tripartite partnerships among government, private sector, and international institutions such as FAO, IFAD, the World Bank, and ILO to transfer expertise, financing, and markets simultaneously.