03/22/2022
Since 2006, the High Atlas Foundation (FHA), in partnership with the Small Grants Program of the Global Environment Facility (GEF SGP) and the Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment of Morocco, has been working with the local population to regenerate degraded soils and fight the degradation of forest cover through the preservation, improvement and enhancement of walnut trees in the High Atlas Mountains, particularly those that border with Protected Areas.
As a result, the project has improved forest coverage and soil quality, as well as resilience of the locals to climate change as they learned how to better deal with droughts and floods. Local incomes have increased and the project also supported the cooperative to get ECOCERT certification of their production processes and nut processing to increase the economic potential of the sector.
Overall, 6,500 people, including 1,000 women, have benefited from the impact of the project. Learn more here