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Market trends in nations around the world that have opened up the demand for organic product can be a direct boon for the poorest of farming communities and developing nations.\u00a0 By adopting methods to ensure their agricultural product does not become contaminated, farming families – who represent the highest proportion of the world\u2019s poor \u2013 can dramatically increase the price of their raw product. Will it be the case that public, civil, business and international agencies assist these communities in the certification process, in the provision of the training that is necessary and in the purchase of their certified products?\u00a0 If so, then in some measure the meek shall inherit the earth.<\/p>\n
Finally, what will further buttress the agricultural economy of the rural poor is the creation of additional value-added activities \u2013 for example, pressing walnuts into oil, introducing greater water efficiency, tree and plant nurseries, building cooperatives and establishing direct links with international buyers.<\/p>\n
In undergoing this transformational process in Morocco with the High Atlas Foundation\u2019s social enterprise, HA3 (High Atlas Agriculture and Artisanal), one can readily understand the enormity of the challenge.\u00a0 In order to achieve success, the necessary outside partners must gain the trust of rural people \u2013 something which is not a given, but earned over months and years.From the other direction, even as the organic movement champions traditional agricultural approaches, there are still behavioral changes that need to be adopted by the farmers, who have undertaken the same procedures for generations, if not centuries.\u00a0 Within communities there can be discord and thus the process of building cooperatives must also be one of building confidence.\u00a0 Concomitant to this is the requirement for training to be both ongoing and experiential; the delivery of such workshops requires constant proximity to the people,something which agencies often do not find easy.<\/p>\n