Within the framework of the statement of action signed between Yarmouk University through the Refugees, Displaced Persons and Forced Migration Studies Center, and the American Shenandoah University, regarding the research project "Zero Hunger", the Center, in cooperation with Irbid Camp Services Committee and Al-Rawabi Ajloun Association for the Development of Rural Women, completed a field survey work for the research sample that included 400 families in both Irbid and Sakhra area in Ajloun Governorate. Interestingly, the statement of action signed between Yarmouk and Shenandoah focuses on the second goal of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Project, which aims at eradicating hunger, providing food security and improved nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture, especially among refugees and vulnerable people. 

The director of the Center, Dr. Reem Al-Kharouf, said that this project copes with the Center's strategic plan, which emanates from the University's mission to serve the local community by addressing refugee issues, noting that the research team included a group of university students chosen to participate in the survey. She then added that the research project, which will be implemented in several phases until 2024, represents the foundation of a geographical database that will be built using geographic information systems that include maps of the two regions showing the locations of poor families linked to the survey information of those families. Al-Kharouf confirmed that the survey’s results and spatial analyses will be invested in the scientific research that will result from the project, pointing out that there will also be a joint research to compare the results of the study of poverty and projects presented to the community to reduce its severity and the severity of hunger in each of the United States of America, Malaysia, and Jordan.