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Million Moringa Project: Moringa as a Viable Solution against Poverty, Malnutrition and Deforestation
Description/achievement of initiative

The overall objective of the project is to align MORINATION AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS in supporting national reforestation, community entrepreneurial spirit, and nutrition efforts. Our primary objectives are • To develop, maintain and protect Philippine forests through reforestation • To plant 1 million Moringa Trees in each region in the Philippines • Inclusive Business to support the involved communities • To generate USD 10 Million in revenues for the communities in 5 years • To distribute 1 million Ready to Eat Therapeutic Food

Implementation methodologies

In order to achieve these objectives the project will have the following activities/ Implementing methodologies: • Enter into Fair Trade Agreements, Contract Growing, Marketing, and Purchase Agreements with the People’s Associations in these areas within a fixed timeframe; • Establish a Nursery and Post Harvest Storage and Facility near the Assigned areas • Provide 1 million moringa cuttings and seeds to identified beneficiaries and People’s Associations • Plant 1 million moringa trees in each region in the Philippines • Develop, Maintain and Protect the areas assigned • Prepare training materials for introducing best practices in moringa agro-forestry, harvesting, and marketing • Design mechanisms to ensure “quality” of the moringa trees & products, and “linkages” (an integrated system, complementary and mutually reinforcing) with all multi-stakeholders like the OECD, DSWD, PENRO, DENR, LGU, DA, DTI, DOST, DOH, clients, and growers • Provide technical support for strengthening capacity-building • Research on the Contribution of Moringa Ready to Eat Therapeutic Food in national nutrition and emergency relief efforts • Distribute 1 million units of Moringa Ready to Eat Therapeutic Food through the DSWD through the Morination Moringa Fund • Particular attention will be paid to ensure the active involvement and participation of all these stakeholders in the process of designing and implementing these activities. • The lead organization will assist the line agencies in the overall coordination of the project activities, provide logistic support, establish a time-frame, manage project funds, prepare training materials, and disseminate information.

Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

Documenting and replicating best fit in the field/ on the ground through these efforts: - focusing on empowering and strengthening the endogenous capabilities of rural communities. Our goal is to make the most of local resources – people, skills, technologies, institutions – and builds on these. Our Capacity building efforts shall be focused on these key success areas: - Favoring sustainable change and development - Taking an inclusive approach in addressing issues of rural development, reforestation, and nutrition in the Philippines - Emphasizing deep, lasting transformations through policy and institutional reforms

Coordination mechanisms/governance structure

Implementing/ Lead Organization: Morination Agricultural Products In close coordination and collaboration with the following organizations through a multi-stakeholder involvement to fight malnutrition, poverty, and deforestation. The multi-sectoral Parties are the UN OECD, UN Global Compact Philippine Network in the Philippines, various line agencies in the Philippines: PENRO- Pangasinan, DENR, DSWD, DOH, DA, LGU, DOST, Board of Investments; People's associations in the Agroforestry/ rural communities in each of the 15 regions in the Philippines. The main sectors involvement: Agro-Food Business, Forestry, Health and Nutrition Sub-sectors: Environment- Reforestation/ National Greening Program; Inclusive growth; Enterprise & Community mobilization and development; Fair Trade and Empowerment; Estimated start date: 01/31/2020 Estimated end date: 12/31/2030

Partner(s)

Morination Agricultural Products, Philippine line agencies, rural communities
Progress reports
Goal 1
1.1 - By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
1.2 - By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
1.3 - Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable
1.4 - By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
1.5 - By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
1.a - Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions
1.b - Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions
Goal 2
2.1 - By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
2.2 - By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
2.3 - By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
2.4 - By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
2.5 - By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed
2.a - Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries
2.b - Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round
2.c - Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
Goal 15
Goal 17
17.14 - Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
17.16 - Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.17 - Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships

Data, monitoring and accountability
December 2021
SDG 2: Feed 1 million Ready To Eat Food to children
December 2025
SDG 1: Generate USD10 Million for the communities
June 2020
SDG 15: Plant 1 million trees
Financing (in USD)
400,000 USD
Staff / Technical expertise
Morination will provide the manpower resources for this initiative

Basic information
Time-frame: January 2020 - December 2030
Partners
Morination Agricultural Products, Philippine line agencies, rural communities
Countries
Contact information
Sharon Jean Gonzales- Gulmatico, President, morI@morination.com
United Nations