Project presentation
In Morocco, in isolated rural areas of the Atlas and Anti-Atlas regions — where poverty and illiteracy rates are higher than the national average — families whose income mainly depends on agriculture struggle to move beyond subsistence farming and are particularly affected by climate change. Combined with harmful human practices (intensive farming and overexploitation of resources), these factors are degrading living conditions and threatening natural resources.
Since 2016, the organisation Migrations & Développement has been implementing a project to develop agroecological practices and strengthen women’s role in the agricultural transition in the Souss-Massa region. The first two phases of the project enabled 45 women farmers to be trained in agroecological practices and seed production, while receiving support in farm management and market research.
Migrations & Développement now aims to ensure these women farmers’ empowerment and the stability of their income by integrating their production into regional distribution networks. The 45 women farmers will be supported in setting up a farmers’ market and a system for selling baskets of organic fruit and vegetables. The project also includes the construction of a 20 m³ water reservoir and a well, as well as the promotion of agroecological practices throughout the region through various channels: training 100 new farmers, assessing the training needs of 10 new farms, creating a public reception area at the educational farm, and sharing training materials and testimonies from women farmers.
