Le Courrier - Agriculture to be reinvented
04.01.2024
Education and Training
While agriculture provides 40% of jobs in Morocco, authorities are relying on new irrigation techniques and seawater desalination to maintain production levels, in a context of increasingly critical resource scarcity. According to the authorities, agriculture has received approximately one-third less of the water normally allocated to it for irrigation.
Dr. Imane Messaoudi-Mattei, Research Associate at the Geneva Water Hub and the Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE) at the University of Geneva, shared these perspectives and analyses with the Geneva daily, Le Courrier (in French).
"Water management is reduced to securing resource availability by focusing solely on supply." She deplores the fact that by focusing on technological prowess to solve water-related problems, agricultural policies adopted in Morocco, like those in other countries facing water stress, reinforce the precariousness of a large part of the rural population, forgetting that solutions must be inseparably environmental and social.
You can read the rest of the analysis in the article below (in French).
