Keeping promises In our October newsletter we promised to come back with the results of the first planting season of 2019. During spring 2019 (April, May) Menaqua in close collaboration with the Nature Conservation Center (‘NCC’) of the American University of Beirut (‘AUB’) began planting forest and fruit trees using the Cocoon technology. The plantings...
Cocoon planting in Ras Baalbak, 2019 By Stephanie Rizk, local agent in Lebanon for Menaqua Land Restoration Land Restoration in Lebanon Reforestation, afforestation, and agricultural projects are becoming highly demanded projects in Lebanon, but the water resource limitation is leading to a critical problem in different areas in Lebanon. One third of the country suffers...
Land Restoration in Jordan Jordan has been facing difficulties from the scarcity of water resources; almost 90% of the land area of Jordan receives less than 200 mm of rainfall annually. This is reflected in poor structural stability of the soil as well as a subsequent vulnerability to excessive erosion followed by shallow rainstorm events....
