NOurishing and MEdicinal FOrest
FONOME
A response to rural exodus and the climate emergency
in Morocco
The Project
This system integrates various crops, from medicinal plants to fruit trees, and uses solar energy and an integrated irrigation system.
It enables us to:
- sustainably improve living conditions for beneficiaries
- generate additional income
- create local jobs
- improve public health
- diversify the diet
- ensure food and economic autonomy
- fertilize and regenerate soils
- preserve biodiversity and water resources
- fertilize and regenerate soils
- support reforestation
The beneficiaries are :
- Small-scale farmers, producers and villagers
- Cooperatives
- associations
They benefit from training and support aimed at :
- acquiring permaculture and agroforestry techniques
- The reproduction of FONOMES
- create jobs as trainers, advisors or agricultural agents
- Promotion and marketing of FONOMES products
The form-school
The N’Terractive association has set up its farm-school in a semi-arid region of Morocco. It is located near Douar Ben Haddi, some ten kilometers from the town of Sidi-Bennour on the El Jadida-Marrakech and Safi-Settat roads. Sidi Bennour is located in the Province of El-Jadida, Doukkala Abda Region.
This farm-school is a place for training, demonstration and transfer of knowledge and technology. It includes a FONOME-SCHOOL, a nursery and a training area. It organizes training courses on methods and techniques for the multiplication of FONOMES.
The N’Terractive Association
The project is initiated and coordinated by the Swiss N’Terractive Association
The N’Terractive association was created in November 2006 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It works for environmental awareness and rational management of natural resources at regional, national and international levels.
The founding members of N’Terractive are motivated and competent women, Dr. Es science, active in the fields of management, technology and knowledge transfer and in the coordination and management of scientific and interdisciplinary projects.
N’Terractive association develops interdisciplinary projects by creating networks between universities, polytechnics, universities of applied sciences, international organizations, NGOs and SMEs in Switzerland and abroad.
Its objective is to support the socio-economic development of populations dependent on natural resources, to develop and monitor socio-educational projects and to valorize natural resources.
Our partners are
Our sponsors are :
We warmly thank the Audemars Piguet Foundation for its generous donation for the establishment of a nursery and the construction of the first food and medicinal forest in Morocco.
Foundation DUTMALA
We would like to thank the DUTMALA Foundation for its generous donation, which will be used to reproduce nourishing and medicinal forests in Morocco, and to supervise and train the beneficiaries.
We would like to thank the ProTechhno foundation which supported us at the very beginning of our project by financing the preliminary study of the project “For the creation of a pilot project for the valorization of plant species adapted to the Moroccan semi-arid zones and to support the socio-economic development of disadvantaged regions”.