This charity project empowers rural farming communities to diversify their crops by planting organic, native fruit trees. The High Atlas Foundation supports community nurseries in Morocco's four bio-zones to raise and transplant the trees with farming families, cooperatives, and education centers. HAF monitors the trees and also trains farmers to do so to ensure success and generate carbon offset credits. Donate now to plant trees and monitor carbon with Moroccan farming communities!
Eighty-five percent of Moroccans from rural communities earn less income than the national average. Farming families primarily cultivate barley and corn, yet this accounts for only 10-15% of revenue. As the climate crisis worsens, Morocco's social and agricultural problems are exacerbated. Erosion, desertification, and drought pose significant challenges. Sustainable agricultural solutions are needed to raise income and address the impacts of climate change.
Tree nurseries are valuable for Moroccan farming communities. Fruit tree cultivation allows farmers to transition from less lucrative barley and corn and generate greater income. Each tree that HAF plants is monitored. HAF has catalyzed selling carbon offset credits from tree monitoring to support its partners' sustainability goals. Training community members (including women and youth) to do so substantially increases the impact on economic and environmental stability.
HAF's community nurseries support 14 varieties of endemic fruit species grown organically. Healthy carbon cycles nurture soil biodiversity, restore degraded land, and combat desertification. All yields belong entirely to farmers, and the monitoring, validation, and sale of carbon credits elevate environmental stewardship while also expanding rural people's economic options beyond the single pathway of intensive agricultural production.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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