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Project aims to alleviate poverty in Moroccan mountains

27.05.2013

A project by the Moroccan government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to develop agricultural commodities in the mountain areas of Al Haouz, Morocco, is moving into its second phase this year.

The project will directly benefit approximately 33,000 people – including smallholder farmers and livestock producers, women, young people and landless farmers – whose livelihoods are affected by the upward and downward linkages of the olive, apple and lamb-meat value chain.

The second phase of the project, which will focus on product marketing, is due to run from 2013 to 2017, and stakeholders attended a start-up workshop in Marrakech in May.

The first phase of project ran for eight years, from 2002 to 2010, and concentrated on the construction of infrastructure for irrigation, institutional empowerment, actions to support agricultural development (such as the distribution of plants) and support for micro-enterprises, income generating activities and micro-finance.

The project’s overall goal is to alleviate rural poverty through sustainable growth in the incomes of poor rural women, men and young people.

IFAD has issued a booklet on the second phase of the project that can be downloaded below (in French).

Read more: http://operations.ifad.org/web/ifad/operations/country/project/tags/morocco/1526/project_overview

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 Livret de présentation du PDFAZMH-FIDA 2.doc