Plant Organic Fruit Trees with African Farmers

by High Atlas Foundation
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Plant Organic Fruit Trees with African Farmers
Plant Organic Fruit Trees with African Farmers
Plant Organic Fruit Trees with African Farmers
Plant Organic Fruit Trees with African Farmers
Plant Organic Fruit Trees with African Farmers
Plant Organic Fruit Trees with African Farmers
Plant Organic Fruit Trees with African Farmers
Plant Organic Fruit Trees with African Farmers
Plant Organic Fruit Trees with African Farmers
Plant Organic Fruit Trees with African Farmers
Plant Organic Fruit Trees with African Farmers
Plant Organic Fruit Trees with African Farmers
Plant Organic Fruit Trees with African Farmers
Plant Organic Fruit Trees with African Farmers
Plant Organic Fruit Trees with African Farmers

Project Report | Jul 15, 2021
Productively (and Joyfully) Meeting (Again) Members of the Aguerzrane Women's Cooperative

By Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir | President

The High Atlas Foundation (HAF) implements the USAID Farmer-to-Farmer Program (F2F) in Morocco. As part of this volunteer initiative team members visited the members of the Aguerzrane women’s cooperative located in the Toubkal Municipality of the Taroudant Province on Thursday the 8th of July. It was a follow up meeting to facilitate participatory monitoring with members to understand the impact and needs following the Imagine Empowerment Workshop and visits by local F2F Volunteer agricultural experts working virtually in conjunction with American professionals. 

There are 31 members of the cooperative who work different shifts over the week managing a fruit tree nursery of 27,000 cherry saplings. The new revenue generated, even as it is needed income and significant as a total sum, may not be having as significant impact as the members need due to its equal division among many families. They therefore seek revenue generating activities such as processing food products. They observe the demand for traditional bread for their own and surrounding villages as well as for the local weekly market. The irrigation system requires additional filtering in order for small stones to not clog the pressure drip system. 

The terraces and the nursery are built on a mountainside. The new terraces upon which the trees sit are on a mountainside and surrounded by fencing over which would be two to three meters high that HAF would immediately financially support. Adjacent to the existing terraces, there is space where two more could be built. Cooperative members are evaluating the cost-benefit of adding the additional terraces. Overall, it was positive to see the process of achieving an idea that was born from the Imagine Workshop experience that together the women of Aguerzrane can define their individual and collective vision, implement it, see its green growth aftermath, benefit from new revenue, integrate domestic and international partnerships, and continue to plan and act together for increasing achievements. 

The municipality during the 2021 cherry harvest yielded approximately 32 tons sold in the domestic market. The organic cherry trees grown into saplings by this cooperative will assist the people in vastly increasing this source of food and income generation.

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High Atlas Foundation

Location: New York, NY - USA
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Kaoutar Ait Lahaj
Marrakech , Morocco
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