{"id":1507,"date":"2018-09-20T12:47:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/didouqen.com\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2022-02-07T12:33:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T12:33:49","slug":"press-release-1-billion-tree-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/press-release-1-billion-tree-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release: 1 Billion Tree Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morocco, El Haouz province: 60 thousand fruit trees to be planted and distributed at Jewish sacred site as part of High Atlas Foundation \u2018One Billion Tree Campaign<\/a>‘.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At midday on Monday February 9th, 2015 the honorable governor of the province of El Haouz, Mr Youn\u00e8s El Bathaoui, together with local community members and representatives of the Jewish community of Marrakesh-Essaouira, will participate in a very special fruit tree distribution and planting event.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>30 thousand seeds and saplings are to be planted and the same number of 2-year-old trees \u2013 olive, fig, pomegranate and lemon \u2013 are set to be distributed to local farmers.\u00a0\u00a0The trees have been raised at the\u00a0<\/span>community nursery at Akriach<\/span><\/a><\/span>, just south of Marrakesh, established by the\u00a0High Atlas Foundation (HAF)\u00a0on land that has been lent by the\u00a0Jewish community of Marrakesh-Essaouira.\u00a0\u00a0The nursery is adjacent to the tomb of Rabbi Raphael Hacohen, one of several hundred Jewish sacred sites located throughout Morocco.<\/span><\/p>\n

The High Atlas Foundation\u00a0is a Moroccan-US non-governmental organization founded fifteen years ago by former Peace Corps volunteers, including its president, Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir.\u00a0\u00a0A year ago the foundation launched its \u2018One Billion Tree Campaign\u2019 \u2013 a continuation, at an accelerated pace, of its successful project involving a million trees, with the aim of establishing a billion new fruit trees and medicinal plants throughout the Kingdom.\u00a0\u00a0Species planted are indigenous to Morocco; nurseries are managed entirely on organic lines by local communities.<\/p>\n

The broader goal is to cease subsistence agricultural practices that trap communities in a cycle of rural poverty and to develop the local and national economy through a variety of initiatives \u2013 from community-managed\u00a0tree nurseries to the deliver of organic product<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0to global markets, cooperative-building, training, and reivestment in human development projects. Additionally, the land management strategies put into place prevent erosion and desertification.<\/p>\n

Land is made available by a diverse variety of interested parties including private individuals, national government bodies, municipalities, educational establishments, cooperatives, women\u2019s associations and cultural bodies, one such being the\u00a0Jewish community of Marrakesh-Essaouira, under its president, Mr. Jacky Kadoch. With the successful establishment of the pilot scheme at Akriach, it is hoped that many more of these cultural sites, with their adjoining arable land, will be utilized in the future.\u00a0\u00a0Indeed, the Moroccan Jewish community\u00a0has already dedicated an additional six parcels of terrain in four provinces and is determined to provide more as funding for seeds, water infrastructure and training for the local farmers becomes available.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cultural preservation and celebration<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0that leads to sustainable human development<\/span>\u00a0is the twin approach adopted in Morocco and this innovative project, linking Moroccan Muslim farming families and the country\u2019s Jewish community embodies both aims.\u00a0\u00a0In this spirit we welcome your participation and collaboration to make further progress with these two essential goals for the benefit of Moroccan farming families today and for the whole nation, to help enhance its rich cultural heritage in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

HAF\u2019s president\u00a0Dr. Ben-Meir<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0describes further: \u201cThe Kingdom of Morocco could be the only place in Africa and the Middle East where local Muslim and Jewish collaboration \u2013 that helps end rural poverty through the creative use of cultural resources \u2013 is promoted and is taking place.\u00a0\u00a0The upcoming gathering with Governor El Bathaoui and community members is an event that showcases the unifying achievement of the Akriach tree nursery as well as the support available to scale up this human development initiative across the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

En Fran\u00e7ais<\/em><\/p>\n

Province d’El Haouz, Maroc: Plantation et distribution de 60 000 arbres fruitiers \u00e0 un site sacr\u00e9 juif dans le cadre de la campagne\u00a0<\/span>‘Un milliard d’arbres’<\/a><\/span>\u00a0de la Fondation du Haut Atlas<\/span><\/p>\n

Le lundi 9 f\u00e9vrier 2015, \u00e0 midi, l’honorable gouverneur de la province d’El Haouz, M. Youn\u00e8s El Bathaoui, ainsi que des membres de communaut\u00e9s locales et des repr\u00e9sentants de la communaut\u00e9 juive de Marrakech-Essaouira, participera \u00e0 un \u00e9v\u00e9nement tr\u00e8s sp\u00e9cial de distribution et de plantation d’arbres fruitiers.<\/p>\n

Trente milles graines et plants seront plant\u00e9s et le m\u00eame nombre d’arbres \u00e2g\u00e9s de deux ans – oliviers, figuiers, grenadiers et citronniers – sont pr\u00eats \u00e0 \u00eatre distribu\u00e9s aux agriculteurs locaux.\u00a0\u00a0Les arbres ont \u00e9t\u00e9 cultiv\u00e9s \u00e0\u00a0<\/span>la p\u00e9pini\u00e8re communautaire d’Akriach<\/a><\/span>, au sud de Marrakech, \u00e9tablie par la Fondation du Haut Atlas (FHA) sur un terrain qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00eat\u00e9 par la communaut\u00e9 juive de Marrakech-Essaouira.\u00a0\u00a0La p\u00e9pini\u00e8re est adjacente \u00e0 la tombe de Rabbi Raphael Hacohen, un parmi les plusieurs centaines de sites sacr\u00e9s juifs situ\u00e9s dans tout le Maroc.<\/span><\/p>\n

La Fondation du Haut Atlas<\/span>\u00a0est une organisation non gouvernementale marocaine-am\u00e9ricaine fond\u00e9e il y a quinze ans par un groupe d’anciens volontaires du Corps de la Paix, y compris son pr\u00e9sident, le Dr Yossef Ben-Meir.\u00a0\u00a0Il y a un an, la fondation a lanc\u00e9 sa campagne\u00a0\u00abUn Milliard d’Arbres\u00bb\u00a0– une poursuite, \u00e0 rythme acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9, de son projet r\u00e9ussi de plantation d’un million d’arbres, dans le but d’\u00e9tablir un milliard de nouveaux arbres fruitiers et de plantes m\u00e9dicinales \u00e0 travers le Royaume.\u00a0 Les esp\u00e8ces plant\u00e9es sont indig\u00e8nes au Maroc; les p\u00e9pini\u00e8res sont g\u00e9r\u00e9es enti\u00e8rement sur l’\u00e9thique bio par les communaut\u00e9s locales.<\/span><\/p>\n

L’objectif g\u00e9n\u00e9ral est de mettre fin aux pratiques agricoles de subsistance qui pi\u00e8gent les communaut\u00e9s dans un cycle de pauvret\u00e9 rurale, et de d\u00e9velopper l’\u00e9conomie locale et nationale \u00e0 travers une gamme d’initiatives –\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>p\u00e9pini\u00e8res g\u00e9r\u00e9es par les communaut\u00e9s, livraison de produits biologiques<\/a><\/span>\u00a0sur les march\u00e9s mondiaux, cr\u00e9ation de coop\u00e9ratives, formation, et r\u00e9investissement dans les projets de d\u00e9veloppement humain.\u00a0\u00a0En plus, les strat\u00e9gies de gestion de terre qui sont mises en place emp\u00eachent l’\u00e9rosion et la d\u00e9sertification.<\/span><\/p>\n

Les terrains sont mis \u00e0 disposition par un ensemble diversifi\u00e9 de parties int\u00e9ress\u00e9es, y compris les particuliers, les organismes gouvernementaux nationaux, les municipalit\u00e9s, les \u00e9tablissements d’enseignement, les coop\u00e9ratives, les associations f\u00e9minines et les organismes culturels, comme, dans ce cas,\u00a0la communaut\u00e9 juive de Marrakech-Essaouira, en vertu de son pr\u00e9sident, M. Jacky Kadoch. Apr\u00e8s l’\u00e9tablissement r\u00e9ussi du projet pilote \u00e0 Akriach, on esp\u00e8re voir beaucoup plus de ces sites culturels, ainsi que leurs terres arables attenantes, utilis\u00e9s dans le futur.\u00a0 En effet, la communaut\u00e9 juive marocaine a d\u00e9j\u00e0 consacr\u00e9 six parcelles suppl\u00e9mentaires de terrain dans quatre provinces et est d\u00e9termin\u00e9e \u00e0 fournir encore plus de terres au fur et \u00e0 mesure que le financement devient disponible pour les graines, les infrastructures de l’eau et la formation des agriculteurs locaux .<\/span><\/p>\n

La pr\u00e9servation et la c\u00e9l\u00e9bration de la culture<\/a><\/span>\u00a0menant au d\u00e9veloppement humain durable<\/span>\u00a0repr\u00e9sentent la double approche adopt\u00e9e au Maroc.\u00a0\u00a0Ce projet novateur, qui relie les familles agricultrices musulmanes marocaines et la communaut\u00e9 juive du pays incarne ces deux objectifs.\u00a0 Dans cet esprit, nous nous r\u00e9jouissons de votre participation et collaboration afin de r\u00e9aliser ensemble ces deux objectifs essentiels au b\u00e9n\u00e9fice des familles agricultrices marocaines aujourd’hui et pour l’ensemble de la nation.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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