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Increase in demand for corn as biofuel has sent its prices soaring.
The fire under the open stove crackles as Catalina Mendez prepares dozens of the handmade corn tortillas she sells every day. Her tiny business has barely broken even, she says, since the recent U.S. demand for ethanol biofuel made from corn began pushing up the price of the local corn. "Not that I would stop now even if I was making nothing," the 69-year-old says, slipping in and out of Nahuatl, the language spoken by the Aztecs. "Making tortillas is in my blood." A symbol of national unity, corn is king in Mexico. But for how long?
The first shudders came at the beginning of the year, when President George W. Bush told America he wanted to produce 160 billion litres of renewable fuels by 2017. As the price of corn futures on the Chicago stock exchange went up sharply, so did the price of tortillas at hole-in-the-wall shops in barrios across Mexico. The shock of paying 50 per cent more overnight for their staple food sent thousands of people on to the capital's streets. The Government hesitated, but by February had negotiated a price freeze that is still in force today.
At a press conference this month, Agriculture Minister Alberto Cardenas attempted to dispel the disquiet. Mexican agribusinesses had responded by growing 1million more hectares of corn, and Mr. Cardenas waved statistics indicating a 12 per cent increase in the summer harvest in the State of Sinaloa, where three quarters of the national production is concentrated.
But questions remain. The additional 1 million hectares growing corn means 1 million fewer hectares available to produce other crops. Because fewer beans — the second most important staple in the Mexican diet — have been planted, their price has gone up, too.
The stickiest issue is perhaps the impact on Mexico's 2 million small-scale corn producers who are the backbone of what is left of its rural economy — already in such decline that many keep afloat only with money sent home by relatives working in the U.S. Dearth of infrastructure, lack of machinery, inadequate information, and weak motivation are just some of the reasons behind the uncompetitive Mexican small farmer. Mr. Ramirez says he expects to harvest two tonnes of corn from the hectare he planted this year — less than a sixth of the yields expected by the agribusinesses in Sinaloa. The corn ethanol bandwagon is passing by farmers like him.
A campaign, Sin Maiz No Hay Pais (No Corn, No Country), trying to bring together all the fears and complaints was launched this month.
Meanwhile, Mexico's politicians look as though they are feeling the pressure to jump on the biofuel bandwagon and join the United States and Brazil, the world's leader in producing sugar cane-based ethanol. Nagged by the knowledge that the country's oil reserves are dwindling, Mexico's Parliament passed a law four months ago to encourage a home biofuel industry to start. But the bill is expected to be amended with a ban on using corn as a fuel source.


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Last week, the university acknowledged it is paying about $100,000 to a New York City firm for the marketing makeover.
"We are unable to provide the logo files as they are not our legal property," Mantz said in an email.
• The Mind Puzzle.
An N and H circumscribed by a U, with all three letters sharing common vertical elements.
"If your logo's too much of a mind puzzle, it's going to present problems," warned Scott Tranchemontagne, president of Manchester-based Montagne Communications.
Sean Owen, president of Manchester- and New York-based wedu, said it is the most progressive, and will force people to think about it. He noted that logos are part of something else — a letterhead, a web page, a sweatshirt; most people who see the logo in context will recognize the letters.
An N and H, inside a block-lettered U.
It was favored by all three experts. Owen sees it as an emblem. "Your traditional Ivy League colleges are known to have their emblems, their crests," he said.
"It's very clean, not complex," said Tranchemontagne.
"It's simple, it's clear," Bstieler said.
• Too Much Information.
An N and H share a logo with three other design elements.
"It's most grounded in tradition," he said, "but it needs to be simple and unique." He noted some people thought the field of stars represented snow, and thought that was a turnoff.
"It has a lot of different things going on," Tranchemontagne said. "Some people try to do too much with a logo."
"It's busy," Owen said.
Tranchemontagne pointed out that the current logo is very horizontal — Thompson Hall on the left with the name of the university stretching far off to the right.
Owen said there is a huge range in the price for a new logo.
If the package includes market research and focus groups, $100,000 would be about correct.
The university has said the price includes a redrawing of the university seal and guidelines that specify how the trademark can be used. Mantz said the money comes from a discretionary fund of privately raised dollars, and the project is seen as crucial by the president's cabinet.
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Hello, I am not sure if I am posting in the right place. I just want somewhere where I can talk to people and get answers.
In April of this year I was diagnosed with hypertension. I am 20 years old, I am not overweight, my normal weight is 8 1/2 stone, my mum also does have hypertension She got it after the age of 40.
My BP readings over time were
160/100(not sure about this one)
I have had a kidney scan, blood tests and was placed on medication(amlopidine mg daily) Bloods and kidney scan came back clear. I have an appointment on 20 Aug for an cardiology appt and an ECG. My twin sister also has it, although hers was only borderline when I was diagnosed with blood pressure, hers is now increasing. Can high BP be hereditary?
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Welcome to the board! :) Welcome to the board! :) And {{{HUGS!}}} It is very good that you are under treatment with your doctor! High blood pressure often has no symptoms, but left untreated can lead to serious problems. It is also good you are going to have an EKG and other evaluations. You are young and it is good they are checking thoroughly with blood tests as well. As you think of questions, I would also write them down and take them with you to your next appt. Once your doctor has a clearer picture of your overall health as well as your blood pressure, I'm sure there will be recommendations for any changes in your lifestyle that might help with your blood pressure, along with your medication. I hope you get the answers you need. :)
Here's a link from the American Heart Association that might answer some of your questions:
Here's some of what this link says:
"What factors increase a person's risk of developing high blood pressure?
Medical science doesn't understand what causes most cases of high blood pressure, so it's hard to say how to prevent it. Several factors may contribute to it.
Risk Factors That Can't Be Controlled
* Heredity. People whose parents or other close blood relatives have high blood pressure are more likely to develop it themselves.
* Race. African Americans are more likely to have high blood pressure than Caucasians, and it tends to occur earlier and be more severe.
* Increasing age. Blood pressure tends to increase with age, and occurs most often in people older than age 35. Men have a greater risk of high blood pressure than women until age 45. From age 45–54, the percentages of men and women are similar. After age 55, women are more likely to develop high blood pressure than men are.
Controllable Risk Factors
* Sedentary or inactive lifestyle. Try to get at least 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity on most days.
* Heavy alcohol consumption. Heavy and regular use of alcohol can increase blood pressure dramatically.
* Sodium (salt) sensitivity.
* Obesity and overweight.
* Stress
Another web site I like for getting information is the Mayo Clinic one:
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Club Sports Association looks to distance from SGA
Some at UCCS are not willing to wait for student government funding to come to them.
The Club Sports Association recently submitted a proposal to the Student Government Association's Budget Advisory Committee to request $32,000 from the club funding money for specific club sport use.
Since then, the BAC has voted on the measure twice. April 16 the vote passed, five yes, two no and one abstain. On April 22 the count was five no and two abstain, and the vote failed.
The email informing the CSA of the final decision, provided to The Scribe by Chen Zhao, SGA director of finance, highlighted the reasons for their reluctance to pass the measure.
According to the email, accountability exists but is "not being utilized." Additional concerns were that the proposed structure would not allow for any SGA oversight, new club sports would not be supported by the funding structure and clubs would not "be funded under equal funding process" (meaning some sports might receive a disproportionate share of the funds).
"The more we think about it, the more concern we have," said Zhao, regarding the proposal. "The current funding guidelines work well."
Zhao expects $86,000 will be allocated for all student clubs next year, to include club sports.
Club sports present individually to SGA BAC for funding from the student activity fee. Individual teams are capped at $3,000 dollars for the amount they can request.
Mallory Price, coordinator of club sports (both a UCCS staff position and a CSA position), highlighted club development and accountability as reasons for the change.
"It's modeled after our peer institutions; we want to get ourselves up to par," said Price.
Randy Rosso, student treasurer of the CSA, came up with the idea for separate funding.
"Why don't we have a separate fund that we can get money out of instead of going to SGA," Rosso said.
Rosso explained club sports at colleges around the country are self-funded through a separate fee.
"Club sports sometimes require more expenses than normal clubs," said Rosso. "They have more liabilities and the possibility to rack up more expenses than a normal club might."
These costs can include rent of facilities for home games, equipment and national governing body membership dues.
Rosso felt his proposed change could lead to higher levels of play.
"I don't want to say we need it more than other clubs," said Rosso. "(Club sports') functionality is different than a normal club.
He indicated club sports have different expenses, liability and responsibilities from other student clubs.
The CSA is looking at other options for next year.
Options include the use of Plant Funds, a rollover fund of unspent club funds from previous years. Rosso indicated they would ask for around $39,000 – $3,000 for each of the existing 13 club sports.
"That Plant Fund is only used for if needs to allocate more money but otherwise it's just kind of sitting there from years and years past," said Rosso.
Another option would be for the club sports to present to the CSA and request funds. Then the CSA would recommend an amount to the BAC.
At print time neither of these options had been discussed with SGA.
Next year, Rosso said the CSA will look to create a separate fee for club sports, which would then not be limited by CSA not SGA guidelines. The fee could be around $2.50 per student.
"In the grand scheme of tuition and stuff, $2.50, you could find that lying around on the ground," said Rosso. "I don't think it would be that much of a burden on students."
"I don't think that number is significant enough to cause an argument hopefully, but if so we have some good reasons I think."
Clubs would still be required to have club dues and fundraise to limit reliance on the proposed fee.
Regardless of what, if any, change are implemented, Rosso said SGA is still interested in oversight and being a part of the allocation procedure. Any change would include a separate funding committee made up of the CSA members and others.
Rosso said discussion with SGA will continue over the next few weeks.
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One thinks with sorrow of the hundreds of thousands whose lives have been horrendously lost or affected by the great Japanese earthquake and tsunami, which will put a black mark against this year 2011 in the annals, coming so soon after the earthquake that hit Christchurch in New Zealand. The events are almost certainly linked tectonically, reminding us of the vast forces of nature that are normal for the planet itself but inimical to human life, especially when lived dangerously close to the jigsaw cracks of the earth's surface.
Someone told me that there were to be special prayers in their local church for the people of Japan. This well-intentioned and fundamentally kindly proceeding nevertheless shows how absurd, in the literal sense of this term, are religious belief and practice. When I saw the television footage of people going to church in Christchurch after the tragic quake there, the following thoughts pressed.
It would be very unkind to think that the churchgoers were going to give thanks that they personally escaped; one would not wish to impute selfishness and personal relief in the midst of a disaster in which many people arbitrarily and suddenly lost their lives through 'an act of God'. If they were going to pray for their god to look after the souls of those who had died, why would they think he would do so since he had just caused, or allowed, their bodies to be suddenly and violently crushed or drowned?
Indeed, were they praising and supplicating a deity who designed a world that causes such arbitrary and sudden mass killings? An omniscient being would know all the implications of what it does, so it would know it was arranging matters with these awful outcomes. Were they praising the planner of their sufferings for their sufferings, and also begging his help to escape what he had planned?
Perhaps they think that their god was not responsible for the earthquake. If they believe that their god designed a world in which such things happen but left the world alone thereafter and does not intervene when it turns lethal on his creatures, then they implicitly question his moral character. If he is not powerful enough to do something about the world's periodic murderous indifference to human beings, then in what sense is he a god? Instead he seems to be a big helpless ghost, useless to pray to and unworthy of praise.
For if he is not competent to stop an earthquake or save its victims, he is definitely not competent to create a world. And if he is powerful enough to do both, but created a dangerous world that inflicts violent and agonizing sufferings arbitrarily on sentient creatures, then he is vile. Either way, what are people thinking who believe in such a being, and who go to church to praise and worship it? How, in the face of events which human kindness and concern registers as tragic and in need of help – help which human beings proceed to give to their fellows: no angels appear from the sky to do it – can they believe such an incoherent fiction as the idea of a deity? This is a perennial puzzle.
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Filmed by AGB films, who also made the BBC Natural World's 'Penguin Post Office' documentary, Port Lockroy 'Base A', Antarctica introduces the history of Port Lockroy as well as offering a taster of what visitors to the historic site can see today. Featuring footage shot from the 2013/14 season, as well as archival images, this introduction to Port Lockroy gives an insight into why Base 'A' remains the most visited historic site in Antarctica.
Whaler's Bay Deception Island film
The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust has also produced a film for Whaler's Bay in Deception Island. With its varied history and remains this site is notoriously challenging for visitors to interpret. The film 'Whalers Bay Deception Island: A Brief History' provides an overview of this fascinating and historically important part of Antarctica and provides a useful means of interpretation of the site. Created by Kirk Watson, the film uses rare archival footage as well as more recent images to bring the story of Whalers Bay to life.
The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust has produced these films as informative guides to be screened to cruise-ship passengers before they visit Port Lockroy and Deception Island. As a member of the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO), UKAHT uses these films as part of its commitment to promoting responsible tourism in Antarctica.
Both of these films are now available on YouTube through the links found on our website here, with additional subtitled versions of the Deception Island briefing film in English, French, German, Mandarin, Norwegian and Spanish.
UK Antarctic Heritage Trust announces the appointment of a Chief Executive
The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust is pleased to announce the appointment of Camilla Nichol as its new Chief Executive. The appointment follows the decision of the Director, Rachel Morgan, to step down after fourteen years with the Trust.
Camilla Nichol joins the Trust from Leeds Museums and Galleries, where she has been Head of Collections since 2008. In Leeds she was responsible for the care, conservation and development of the 1.3 million-strong collections across nine museum sites. Leading on the strategic development of the service she secured in excess of £13m of external funding, including achieving Arts Council England Major Partner Museum status for Leeds. She also was responsible for the award-winning community engagement programme, an innovative digital media department, an active research strategy, as well as strategic partnership development.
Camilla studied Geology at the University of Edinburgh followed by Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. Previously she led the science team at York Museums Trust and worked at the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow University, during which time the first rocks collected on the Antarctic mainland by Carsten Borchgrevink were uncovered in the collection.
"I am delighted to be joining the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust at such an exciting time. Port Lockroy has never been so popular with visitors, plus we are in the middle of the centenary of the heroic age which has inspired so many. I am looking forward to sharing my passion for the Antarctic with a wider public" said Camilla.
"I'm looking forward to working with the Trustees and the team in Cambridge in continuing the Trust's excellent work in preserving this important heritage, as well as developing new and innovative ways for us to reach new audiences with our Antarctic story."
"The Trustees are delighted that Camilla has accepted the role of Chief Executive of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust," said UKAHT Chairman, Donald Lamont. "Rachel Morgan leaves a unique legacy of achievement: our operation at Port Lockroy is the most visited location in Antarctica and has become known to a wider public through the outstanding "Penguin Post Office" programme on TV. This forms a platform of excellence on which Camilla and our team in Cambridge can now build".
Penguin Post Office
Last season BBC Natural World commissioned a production that would capture Port Lockroy's gentoo penguins. Their daily trials and tribulations unfold as cruise ships come and go, bringing tourists to buy postcards, visit the museum and of course photograph the penguins.
Running concurrently are two further BBC productions: BBC Radio 4 'Penguin Post Office', recorded by the film crew team and CBBC's 'My Life' featuring director and cameraman Andrew Graham-Brown's children.
Port Lockroy Post Office and museum sits on tiny Goudier Island in Antarctica. Established in February 1944 the research station remained permanently occupied until 1962. In 1996 Port Lockroy was restored to its original condition and is now open to visitors during the Antarctic summer. Each year the Trust recruits a team of four talented and enthusiastic staff to work at Port Lockroy for the season, promoting the legacy of British scientists' early work. The gentoo penguins arrived on Goudier Island in 1985.
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Concerted efforts to reduce the University's water consumption have been ongoing for two decades. On the Charles River Campus, consumption has dropped 31% since 1991. While progress has certainly been made, there's still much more work to be done.
In partnership with sustainability@BU and the Sustainability Committee, FMP is continuously working to identify and implement opportunities throughout the campus, from innovative technologies to behavioral changes, that reduce water waste.
"I've empowered the staff to incorporate best practices to conserve water," says William J. Walter, FMP's assistant vice president for operations and services. Staff are able to implement changes on their own by working within their budgets to purchase items such as energy-saving shower heads, without having to go through time consuming approval channels. "Everything we do is working toward the ultimate goal of conserving resources and best practices," Walter says. And, anytime BU renovates a space, water saving upgrades are always included in the project.
In spring 2010, BU became one of the first universities to install bottle fill up stations (pictured above) at a major sports workout facility (FitRec). This pilot program provides a sanitary way for users to fill a reusable bottle at the water fountain. A LCD screen displays the number of plastic bottles that have been saved by calculating the number of people who have filled up. A variety of strategies has been implemented across campus, including:
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On April 3, 1973, a Motorola employee named Martin Cooper strolled out onto New York's Sixth Avenue with an oddly-shaped plastic brick in his hand. He pressed a few buttons, puzzled onlookers by holding the device to his ear, and placed the world's first ever cell phone call to Joel Engel, the head of research at Bell Labs. Cooper told his chief rival that, yes, Motorola had successfully engineered the world's first cell phone. History: Made.
The humble cell phone turns 40 today, having fundamentally changed the lives of six billion global phone owners and counting.
The original handset Cooper used was the Motorola DynaTAC, a big, ugly piece of telecom history that weighed 2.5 pounds, most of it battery. While the first unit wasn't certified by the FCC until 1983, Cooper is still widely credited as the godfather of the cell phone, from which prismatic microcomputers like the Samsung Galaxy S 4 and the iPhone 5 have descended.
"People are fundamentally, inherently mobile," Cooper told the Daily Beast, claiming he was inspired by Captain Kirk's gold "communicator" from Star Trek. Now 84, Cooper, lives and works in Silicon Valley, and has watched his magical communications device became smaller and exponentially more powerful ever year.
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I realized that it's difficult to make fitting adjustments on my own body by myself. I can't afford a manufactured dummy nor am I confident that something store-bought would be able to replicate my cup size and other dimensions properly, so I conscripted my sister and we made one out of duct tape. My sister and I made this dummy by taping over an old t-shirt and some plastic bags (to cover the legs). It took about 2 hours. I stuffed it with old newspapers and put a hanger inside so I could put it in my closet. If I had to do it again, I would have kept my arms at my sides. I had my arms slightly out, which raised my shoulders, so the dummy isn't so good for getting the look of sleeves right.
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Pop goes the Jets' points streak
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OTTAWA -- The better team Sunday at Scotiabank Place was not the Winnipeg Jets, who found out good intentions will only get you so far.
The Ottawa Senators stormed the Jets early and again late and pinned a 4-1 victory on the board, winning the season's three-game series 2-1.
The Jets are so far the only team this season that has defeated Ottawa here in regulation time but the Senators were full marks in denying the repeat, upping their home mark to 10-1-3.
Thus ended Winnipeg's six-game points streak (5-0-1). Whether the Jets' recent run up the standings, with a mark of 10-4-1 in the last 15 to be the third Eastern Conference seed as Southeast Division leaders, will also be stalled depends on results to come this week at home against Boston Tuesday, Washington Thursday and Friday and Tampa Bay Sunday.
"They came hard on us today," said Jets goalie Ondrej Pavelec, who faced 42 shots on the day, 19 of them in the first period alone. " I think they were the better team.
"Not our best game for sure but we need our heads up. Tuesday's another game."
First Period
-- It was clear early the Jets weren't the sharper team. Both clubs played Saturday, but it was Winnipeg that was into a third game in four days. As such, Ottawa captain Daniel Alfredsson beat Jets defenceman Dustin Byfuglien off the boards on the right wing, rushing the net and somehow his fluttering puck got by goalie Ondrej Pavelec, apparently with a touch by Guillaume Latendresse on the way by.
"The first period, I thought fatigue was a factor," said Jets coach Claude Noel. "We came out and we weren't very physical or intense. They obviously took the play to us and I thought our goalie gave us a chance to win the game by holding us in the game 2-0." -- Winnipeg's excellent penalty-killing run came to an end late in the period with Ottawa's second power play. Sergei Gonchar's sweet cross-ice feed to Jakob Silfverberg was too much for the defenders, making it 2-0 and ending the 11-game perfect killing streak at 29 chances.
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"I don't think they were trying to sit on 2-0," said Jets centre Nik Antropov, who had another effective outing. "That's the trickiest score in the NHL. We had some momentum. We talked about it in the dressing room. We came out strong but their goalie played really good, too."
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-- It was game on early, when Zach Bogosian ripped in a point shot at 3:26. Following that, the Jets had a power play, but couldn't convert. And when Dustin Byfuglien was penalized shortly after that for running over Lehner on a scoring opportunity, Evander Kane had two glorious chances in the ensuing three minutes but couldn't get the game tied. From there, Kyle Turris and Silfverberg added some cushion to give Ottawa a fine run of 8-2-4 in the last 14, most of it without No. 1 goalie Craig Anderson, top defenceman Erik Karlsson and centre Jason Spezza.
"They made some nice plays," Noel said. "They've got some guys ... almost identical plays, dot-to-dot play that's really tough on your goalie. You've got to give them credit. Tonight we lost it (special teams) 2-0. I wouldn't say it was the difference but it certainly put a big dent in our game."
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"Go down 2-0 in the first period on the road, with all that in mind it becomes a good challenge," Blake Wheeler said. "We battled back, had a number of chances to tie that game up in the third period, so there are positives."
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"I didn't know that I bothered people ... well, I knew that I did, but I didn't know quite how much." Zoubida Charrouf, Professor in the Science Faculty of Mohamed V. University, in Rabat, Morocco is quietly trying to explain some of the hurdles she faces. "People reproach me three things. They reproach me for having helped women get out of the house. They reproach me for having improved the extraction of argan oil. And they reproach me for being interested in a tree that belongs to ordinary people, not to academics."
Those three elements – women's emancipation, the products of the argan tree, and the conservation of an indigenous species – are inextricably linked in Dr Charrouf's work. Without doubt, she is the argan's greatest champion. Unique to the poor, arid south-west of Morocco, the thorny argan is a precious resource. Every part of the tree is useable: the wood is used for fuel, the leaves and fruit provide forage for goats, and the oil extracted from the almonds is used in cooking and traditional medicine. More important perhaps, it is the region's last bulwark against the advance of the desert.
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Researching the argan's undiscovered properties
Dr Charrouf's interest in the argan was piqued on her return from studies in France," to be a chemical engineer – I've always been fascinated by chemistry." But when she returned home to Morocco, she found that the only work available was not research, but "routine tasks." She therefore embarked on a PhD program, to be followed by a state PhD which would enable her to teach. "I was almost obliged to accept a subject," she says, "because there was only one professor at the university. It was in organic chemistry – pure, hard synthesis – and I didn't like it at all. So when I had a chance, I chose to start over from scratch and do something I like."
What she liked were plants. "For me, plants are something with which one dialogues. They're useful." Why the argan? "Because it's typically Moroccan. And also because it's threatened by extinction." Although the argan is Morocco's second most common tree species, more than third of the forest has disappeared in the past century.
There was also a century-old puzzle to solve. "Argan oil had been studied by many researchers before me," she says. "What attracted me most – I guess I'm always looking for challenges – was that, at the end of the 19
century, a French author who studied the argan stone claimed that it contained an active principle. What intrigued me was that, from that time until I started my research, no one had sought to discover what that principle was. Whenever someone works on the argan, they focus only on the oil. The oil may be the argan's main product, but there's much more."
The "much more" she discovered were new molecular substances, unique to the argan. In Québec City this past August, she described some of those substances and their properties – as antimicrobial agent, as antioxydant, and more – to fellow researchers attending the fifth annual colloquium on natural products from plants, organized by the Laboratoire d'analyse et de séparation des essences végétales of the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi and the International Development Research Centre (
Finding ways to help the community
Research is fine and well, but when it's finished, you come back to the reality of the country, says Dr Charrouf. To commercialize a product takes at least 10 to 20 years, even in developed countries. "In the meantime, do you just sit back and wait?" she asks. Dr Charrouf felt the need, first to do field work, but also to give something back to the communities she had consulted in the course of her research. "There's a debt to be paid," she states, "there has to be a return to the disenfranchised of these regions who taught us about the argan's benefits."
"That's when I told myself that it made no sense that, at the end of the 20
century, this oil that has so many virtues – nutritional, cosmetic, therapeutic – can be as debased as it was. It's not right that it's still sold on the side of the road, in recycled, chipped bottles. It's not right either that it's still produced by grinding the nuts between rocks."
assistance, she 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." While the technology for pressing oil exists, the argan seed poses unique problems – it's 16 times harder than a hazelnut, for instance, has an unusual shape, and contains up to three kernels. Nevertheless, she found that it was possible "to work with the women, to give them employment and improve the oil using machines that already exist." One of those machines – the roaster – was built by her husband, adapting plans from another Centre-supported project in Burkina Faso.
The goal, explains Charrouf, was not to simply help commercialize a product and confirm its medicinal and cosmetic uses, but to help the forest users gain greater benefit from the trees. She is convinced that "that way, they'll be motivated to protect it and replant it."
Building a booming business
The argan oil's success took even her by surprise. "We had no money for publicity," she says, "not a cent for a pamphlet or to write an article." Nevertheless, the media came in droves. So much so that today "in Europe, there's almost an article every month."
Argan oil now figures on the menu of some of Europe's and New York's best restaurants. Much of it comes from industrial installations, she says, but still "it's unbelievable that a cooperative, in one year, had $100,000 worth of business." The cooperatives' oil meets international health standards and is certified organic. The cooperative members' outstanding work was recognized this past October when the Amal Cooperative of Tamanar was awarded the International Slow Food Award for Biodiversity 2001.
Changing women's lives
If the argan and its potential fascinate Dr Charrouf, she is also driven by the desire to improve women's lives. "You can already feel it," she says, "these women are not the same as before." If you ask them what they like most about the cooperative, the answer is unambiguous and unanimous: 'We have gotten out of of the house.' "Together they share their problems, their laughter, she adds. And because they are together, the project can offer training in literacy, marketing, quality control, and other subjects."
's involvement in the argan cooperatives has now ended, Dr Charrouf's work is just beginning. "We've only done 10 percent of what should be done in the argan forest," she says. The oil was a short-term project that we could carry out right away. But there are other products to be developed. "Extraordinary things can be done with the extraction residues," she says, and with the leaves, wood pulp, wood – all can be exploited industrially. "I'm staying with it so that as many benefits as possible remain in Morocco," she adds.
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