En Tunisie, le gouvernement vient d’annoncer l’effacement de dettes d’agriculteurs et de pêcheurs. Cette mesure, qui s’appliquera automatiquement aux petits producteurs dont la dette ne dépasse pas 3000 dinars concernera 54 000 d’entre eux.

 Egypt will start buying local wheat from farmers at the average global price starting next season changing the way it subsidises its wheat growers, the cabinet said in a statement on Thursday. In previous years Egypt annually fixed a local procurement price for Egyptian wheat that is above global prices in...

La revue Alternatives Rurales a atteint, en octobre 2015, un rythme encourageant, avec ce troisième numéro de série et un hors-série sur les jeunes publié en juin 2015. Nous proposons, à partir de ce numéro, un court édito pour présenter les articles de chaque numéro. Les articles du présent numéro...

Hosted on CIHEAM’s website (ciheam.org), the Mediterranean Observatory aims at contributing to the exchange of ideas by providing information and analyses on agriculture, food and development within the Euro-Mediterranean area. In this regard, various statistical indicators were collected and processed in order to offer essential information for all those who,...

Depuis leurs indépendances, l’Algérie, le Maroc et la Tunisie ont suivi diverses politiques agricoles sans réussir à garantir la sécurité alimentaire par la production agricole locale. En Algérie, une politique agricole à travers le plan national de développement agricole (PNDA) fut mise en oeuvre a partir de l’année 2000 afin...

Le ministre de l'Agriculture, du Développement rural et de la Pêche, Sid Ahmed Ferroukhi, a affirmé dimanche à Alger, la détermination de son secteur à réunir toutes les conditions et avantages favorables à la sédentarisation des agriculteurs, tels l'accès à la protection sociale et à la retraite.

En Tunisie, l’agriculture et la société rurale traversent une crise profonde depuis le début des années 2000. Cette crise a été aggravée par le traitement de la crise des matières premières agricoles de l’automne 2007. L’approfondissement de la crise a fait le lit de la révolution de janvier 2011 qui...

Lebanon’s rural areas are resource-rich but to keep citizens there the government must provide them with more economic incentives to stay, experts told The Daily Star Friday. “Social protection is critical to fight poverty in rural areas,” Maurice Saade, the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization representative in Lebanon, told...

Integration is based on the principle of the interactions between two or more components of the production system. Interactive research based on interdisciplinary approach involving NARS and ICARDA’s scientists is important to develop integrated crop-livestock systems in the low rainfall areas. The site of Sidi-Bouzid is characterized by a large...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the emerging entrepreneurial practices and the underlying logic of family farms in two agrarian reform cooperatives in Morocco. These practices can be explained by the constant negotiation of multiple and sometimes even antagonistic logics (peasant, entrepreneurial, proletarian, capitalistic) within these farms in...

Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Eng. Ahmad al-Qadri said work with FAO will focus on promoting future cooperation between both sides through setting joint programs targeting agricultural sector in Syria to achieve positive outcomes. During a meeting with UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Assistant Director-General for North Africa and...

The diversity of agriculture in the world reflects the immense variety of societies and natural environments on the planet. Indeed, agricultural systems range from various types of shifting slash-and-burn practices – sometimes very similar to those of the first sedentary human groups – to quasi-automated agricultures in some regions of...

Climate change assessments are based on predictions, or - more accurately - projections of future conditions of temperature and precipitation in a given area. These projections are generated by very complex models, Global Circulation Models (or GCMs). There are three major hurdles in interpreting correctly the results from these models:...

Simple biogas technology is changing the lives of farmers across Egypt by providing sustainable, cheap, clean energy and highly nutrient fertilizer for their crops.

Land degradation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is believed to be expanding at an alarming rate, accompanied by the lowest agriculture and livestock yields of any region in the world. While cereal production has increased marginally over the past two decades, more than 70 percent of this growth is due to...

La question des jeunes ruraux est peu étudiée et souvent peu prise en compte dans les politiques publiques en Méditerranée, malgré le rôle actif de cette catégorie sociale au sein des exploitations agricoles et des territoires ruraux. Nous interrogeons ce paradoxe dans le numéro thématique des Cahiers Agricultures consacré aux jeunes ruraux...

Tunisia's 3,000-year history of olive farming is under threat with warnings that production is at risk of halving by 2030 because of the extremes of climate change, from floods to droughts.

This short article reflects on the articles on rural youth in the Maghreb collected in this volume. It first offers some general remarks on the importance of a research and policy focus on the problem of generational succession in agriculture, then some comparative observations from recent research in Indonesia that...

Biskra est célèbre pour ses dattes qui représentent la principale production agricole. Au milieu des années 1980, des serres sont apparues en marge des oasis, ouvrant la voie à de nouvelles dynamiques agraires. Ces dynamiques sont portées par des arrangements entre différents acteurs qui mettent en commun leurs facteurs de...

INRA Morocco and OCP Foundation will oganise the first conference on Afro-Mediterranean soils, on the occasion of the International Year of Soils 2015. This conference focus on the threats and remedies needed for durable management of soil use and conservation. High quality research papers on applications, management and sustainable development...