A Story about Protection of Indigenous Species, Emancipation, and Economic Development
This is a story of how Ms. Zoubida Charrouf, Professor in the Science Faculty of Mohamed V. University, in Rabat, Morocco brought to bear more than 15 years of research to establish the country’s first-ever argan oil processing cooperatives. With International Development Research Centre (IDRC) assistance, Professor Charrouf set out to protect the argan forest by improving the processing of argan oil and, in so doing, improve the lives of rural Moroccan women "usually condemned to domestic tasks and illiteracy."