2024-07-28 14:19:31
Since its proclamation by the United Nations General Assembly in March 2021, May 10 of each year is celebrated as International Argan Day, indicates a press release from the Ministry of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forests.
This celebration highlights Morocco’s efforts to promote the argan tree as an endemic tree of the Kingdom and as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity and an ancestral source of sustainable and resilient development, the same source continued.
It also aims to highlight the role of the argan tree in strengthening the resilience of communities, its contribution to food security (SDG 2), adaptation to climate change (SDG 13), water stress (SDG 6) and its importance in the empowerment of rural women (SDG 5), through the support and promotion of cooperatives and agricultural organizations (SDG 8).
Indeed, Morocco, aware of the environmental issues and challenges facing the argan ecosystem, is committed to developing and maintaining community sustainable management practices, in a context of water stress and increasing climate change. Through this international day celebrated each year by the United Nations, the Kingdom shares its knowledge to strengthen the resilience of this emblematic ecosystem, where the Argan tree is a symbol of biodiversity and carries within it know-how and experiences useful for rebuilding a balance between human beings and nature.
The kick-off of the celebrations of this day will be given this year from the headquarters of the United Nations in New York, under the chairmanship of the Minister of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forests, Mohamed Sadiki, and the Ambassador Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, the press release said.
This celebration will also be marked by the organization, for two weeks, of an artistic and photographic exhibition on the Argan tree within the United Nations Headquarters, as well as a reception in honor of the community of Ambassadors and officials of the United Nations system, to taste Argan products and discover the offer of local Moroccan cooperatives.
Under the theme “Local socio-economic development and sustainability of the Argan ecosystem”, this meeting will also see the participation of several Ambassadors of Member States and high dignitaries of the United Nations, including the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, the President of the United Nations General Assembly, the Directors and representatives of UNESCO, WHO, FAO, UN Women and the Green Climate Fund.
Several events on a national scale will also celebrate International Argan Day: reforestation actions, conferences and debates, activities of environmental clubs in schools, etc.
To crown these celebrations, the second edition of the International Argan Fair will be organized in Agadir from May 17 to 21, and will be an opportunity to highlight the dynamics of the Argan sector and the progress of the various institutions of the Ministry of Agriculture for the preservation and sustainable development of the Arganeraie ecosystem, concludes the ministry.
2024-07-28 14:19:31