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...
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...
Last summer, we targeted Jordan as the focal country for our next mission. We selected Jordan since our working field/area is the MENA Region and our team prefers to align with the policies set by the Dutch Government (Ministry of BHOS) to concentrate on specific countries in the region.
