The Issam Fares Institute of the American University of Beirut initiated this project aiming at understanding the impact of political, economic and environmental change, including climate change, on a marginal Bedouin community in the Bekaa plain, Lebanon in 2009. Results of the first phase were an extensive study report and a book on oral Bedouin heritage. Within its second phase, the project aims to further study the changes in the food system of the Bedouins as well as the evolution of their livelihoods in order to assist them in their transition from nomadism to settlement.