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Climate Change, Agricultural Policy and Food Security in Morocco by Saidi Abdelmajid; Ahmed Mukhtar; Mirza Barjees Baig; Michael R. Reed is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Climate Change, Agricultural Policy and Food Security in Morocco about?

The agricultural sector constitutes a key factor ensuring food security in Morocco, meeting the dietary and nutrition needs through vegetables, fruits, meat, and other products. It employs almost 40% of the working population at the national level and 74% in rural areas. It plays multiple roles in the economy as it provides market and non-market services, contributes to a certain balance between urban/rural, provides a basis to rural people for their social attachment, serves as a cradle for cultural landscapes, and attracts nature lovers by promoting agricultural tourism. However, Moroccan agriculture is still vulnerable to climatic variations and remains strongly constrained by the annual and interannual variability of precipitations. It should be recalled that the Moroccan climate, generally arid to semi-arid, is influenced by global warming with a rise in temperatures and a sharp decrease in rainfall, with prolonged droughts and catastrophic floods. These phenomena are expected to intensify in the coming decades, threatening to further degrade natural resources, especially water scarcity. Furthermore, Morocco is an exporter of agricultural crops that consume a lot of water (suc

Author

Saidi Abdelmajid; Ahmed Mukhtar; Mirza Barjees Baig; Michael R. Reed

Publisher

Springer International Publishing AG

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030729899

Subjects

Science, Agriculture, Economics