Irrigation Systems for Fruit Trees in Africa

Good day and we hope all is well from the team here at the High Atlas Foundation.

As some of you may know, it is currently the nut harvest. What does that mean for the HAF team? It means we’re busy in the field, coordinating with local farmers, ensuring organic practices are upheld, setting-up the processing machines and getting ready to buy our first batch of organic nut product.

With this harvest, the HAF and its social enterprise HA3 teams are working to complete the first ever purchase, processing and sale of organic certified walnuts and almonds. Organic certification has been secured and initial funding is available. Negotiations are underway with the Atlas farmers. Once product is obtained, it will be cleaned, packaged and shipped to the US.

This is a very exciting and pivotal time for HAF, HA3 and most importantly the thousands of Moroccans this initiative will benefit. These organic, fair-trade, environmentally sustainable, and socially responsible products will empower rural Moroccans while simultaneously improving their access to clean drinking water and education through reinvestment.

The irrigation systems project is especially pertinent to the progress of HA3 as without proper water resource management, progress is reduced, or worse, harm could be done. Water management is the most essential portion of the food value chain that HAF and HA3 are facilitating farmers to capitalize upon. It is crucial that proper water management be developed in each and every nursery or orchard, which currently remains to be completed.

High Atlas Agricultural and Artisanal (HA3) partners with farmers across Morocco to transform its agricultural system.  Through replacing subsistence farming with a green economy—training farmers in organic agricultural methods and providing the infrastructure needed for this transition—HA3 lifts farmers out of poverty and paves the way for sustainable development.