Yossef Ben-Meir

Yossef Ben-Meir is president of the High Atlas Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sustainable development in Morocco.

 COMMUNITY MEMBERS of all ages gather in Telouet, Morocco, for a participatory dialogue session during the Southern Heritage Tour, organized in October 2022 as part of the USAID-funded Dakira program.

USAID bears the American identity and is bound to US's destiny - opinion

HUMAN LANGUAGES family tree, 2014

Promote sustainable development through multilingualism - opinion

WOMEN PLANT an olive tree in the Marrakech-Safi region of Morocco.WOMEN PLANT an olive tree in the Marrakech-Safi region of Morocco.

UN SDGs: We must help local communities implement the goals - opinion


Bringing poverty to heel by understanding its causes

Since most poverty on earth afflicts rural people, we should acknowledge that food growers’ associations must also be processors of their bounty.

AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE members planning their local projects in Morocco’s Oujda Region.

Volunteer program lets farmers share knowledge, skills in other countries

Farmer-to-Farmer responds to the local needs of host-country farmers and organizations like HAF in developing and transitional countries.

BILL NICHOLS at the Women’s Cooperative of Tassa Ouirgane.

A plan to achieve a development model in Morocco – opinion

Morocco’s development frustrations stem from insufficient training in participatory development among those responsible for facilitating community dialogue and actions.

VENDORS SERVE customers at a market in Rabat in 2013.

Moroccan decentralization: Step by step

For a range of reasons then, nations are being compelled to disperse power from the national level; For some, this is even a matter of political survival.

Moroccan youth demonstrate against the government

Morocco: Catalyzing human development through cultural preservation

Here 50,000 fig, pomegranate, almond and lemon saplings are growing, soon to be distributed for free to local farming households.

Care of the Forests Continues Even in a Sabbatical Year 758x530

Building world peace, locally

After all, we as people directly experience the degrees of peace in society, and we affect its presence by our individual and group behavior.

A Hamas regional operations map recovered by the IDF in Gaza

UN International Day of Democracy: Engaging young people on democracy

In Morocco, the situation of the youth is a good reflection of that of other nations of the region.

Moroccan youth demonstrate against the government

Why Morocco won’t be next

The country’s plan to decentralize in order to advance democracy from the bottom up is an important reason why the protests have not gained the incredible traction they have in other parts of the Arab world.

Arab world PROTESTERS HOLD ‘f’s