Growing herbs for profit in Jordan
Jordanian women are empowering themselves by capitalising on nature.
Barack Obama, the US president, launches a new effort on Monday to build business and social ties to the Muslim world.
Obama hosts a two-day presidential summit on entrepreneurship that will bring together about 250 successful business and social entrepreneurs from more than 50 countries, most with large Muslim populations, fulfilling a pledge he made in his Cairo speech to the Islamic worldlast June.
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| Jordanian women are turning natural resources into profit |
The aim is to bring together successful business and social entrepreneurs from different countries, venture capitalists, development bankers and other business experts to discuss ideas and share experiences with a view towards creating support networks that will help promote development in the region.
However, one businesswoman in Jordan does not require a summit to make a profit.
Maisoon Zaidan set up an initiative in 2006 to capitalise on Jordan’s natural resources.
Al Jazeera’s Nisreen El-Shamayleh travelled to the village of Anjara to meet Zaidan and her profitable garden.