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Dear colleagues, partners and friends of Menaqua Foundation, As we announced in April, Menaqua has become Menaqua Foundation. Consequently, we have spent the past quarter transitioning from being a company to learning to operate as a foundation. Where previously we were supported by a single financier, we are now funded on a project basis by…

Artist and designer Fatima Gharaibeh has teamed up with the Menaqua Foundation to raise money to regreen the Middle East. She is doing this by creating a collection of 1,000 NFTs (non-fungible tokens) that will be available for sale online this autumn. Fatima is generously donating 25% of the money raised to the Menaqua Foundation’s…

Introducing: In our ‘Field Notes’ series, members of the Menaqua Foundation team write about their visits to and experiences in our project countries. In this edition, Sammy Kayed, local agent for Menaqua in Lebanon, reports from Arsal, an agro planting site in the upper North of Lebanon. “It’s easy to blame the homogenizing force of…

It was in November 2018, after six months of intensive preparation, that we took our first physical steps in the Middle East. In Jordan to be exact. We had organized a big conference with the Ministry of Agriculture that aimed to introduce Menaqua and our recommended Cocoon technology to the Middle East. The Middle East…

In our ‘Field Notes’ series, members of the Menaqua team write about their visits to and experiences in our project countries. In this edition, Preethi Sridharan, Menaqua’s agroforestry specialist, reports from Jordan. During our visits to Middle Eastern countries like Jordan, we see beautiful, undulating landscapes and highlands. As we move across rangelands and barren…

Three years and almost 5,000 seedlings after Menaqua began planting trees in Jordan and Lebanon in 2019, we are proud to present the results of a comprehensive assessment of the Cocoon planting technology we use in our projects. “As we scale up our regreening activities, I believe the value of testing this technology in ’real-life’…

Are you familiar with the greenest country in the world? It certainly is not the country pictured here, which is Jordan, showing Al Hisha Forest, one of our current restoration projects. Measured by current standards, the greenest country must be carbon negative. This means that the trees and other plant life absorb more carbon than…

MENAQUA’s planting site location in Al Hisha (Jordan, 2021) New Reforestation Project in Al-Hisha, Jordan Menaqua Land Restoration together with the Jordanian Ministry of Agriculture and our new partner EcoMatcher have established a reforestation project in Al-Hisha area of Ma’an Governorate. The main aim of the project is to support recovery of the degraded landscape…

‘I am Growing II, لى شجرة’ in Gaza Newsletter, December 2021 Children involved in ‘I am Growing II’ planting trees in Gaza, Palestine, 2021. I called my tree ‘Sama’, and I visit Sama more often to water her. I started to notice that there are more leaves growing on Sama every day and it makes me happy. I learned from “I am…

On 27 January 2021 Menaqua organised the webinar “How to plant more trees in MENA?”. The issue was addressed from different angles by three keynotes speakers with extensive hands-on experience in reforestation and sustainable agricultural development. The keynote speakers gave short, mind sharpening presentations followed by a forum discussion where questions, concerns and propositions from…