Project Goal: Improved water management to combat desertification

Project Scale: 70 projects for 650 people

Project Content: Water-saving practices in agriculture, alternative irrigation practices, reforestation to fight ground erosion

In Morocco, farmland is increasingly disappearing under the desert. Almost 50 percent of the population lives from agriculture, and farmers are focusing on a range of small but effective approaches in order to combat the growing threat of desertification. Planting argan trees, for example, serves to prevent ground erosion, while breeding cacti and other plants that can thrive even in the desert also helps secure their livelihoods. Farmers are now concentrating on products such as cactus seed oil and jam.

A film by Mabel Gundlach