Improving the date production chain in the Moroccan oases through small mechanization inputs to support the governmental development strategies

cg.contactfrancesco.garbati@unifi.iten_US
cg.contributor.centerInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas - ICARDAen_US
cg.contributor.centerMoulay Ismail University - MOISUen_US
cg.contributor.centerUniversity of Florence - UniFien_US
cg.contributor.funderNot Applicableen_US
cg.contributor.project-lead-instituteInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas - ICARDAen_US
cg.coverage.countryMAen_US
cg.coverage.regionNorthern Africaen_US
cg.creator.idBartolini, Pietro: 0000-0002-5946-5772en_US
cg.creator.idZucca, Claudio: 0000-0002-8636-0511en_US
cg.creator.idBonaiuti, Enrico: 0000-0002-4010-4141en_US
cg.creator.idLe, Quang Bao: 0000-0001-8514-1088en_US
cg.subject.agrovocharvestingen_US
cg.subject.agrovoctillageen_US
cg.subject.agrovocmechanizationen_US
cg.subject.agrovocpest controlen_US
cg.subject.agrovocshoot pruningen_US
cg.subject.agrovocunited nations conference on environment and developmenten_US
cg.subject.agrovocchannelsen_US
cg.subject.agrovocpollenen_US
cg.subject.agrovocvalue chainsen_US
cg.subject.agrovoctransporten_US
cg.subject.agrovocpollinationen_US
cg.subject.agrovocweed controlen_US
dc.contributorBartolini, Pietroen_US
dc.contributorEl Rhaffari, L.en_US
dc.contributorFahim, Soumiaen_US
dc.contributorZucca, Claudioen_US
dc.contributorBonaiuti, Enricoen_US
dc.contributorLe, Quang Baoen_US
dc.creatorGarbati Pegna, Francescoen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-10T12:37:34Z
dc.date.available2017-10-10T12:37:34Z
dc.description.abstractMoroccan oases as other Saharan oases are a highly artificial ecosystem that have proved to be capable of sustaining agriculture under arid climatic conditions for centuries, though it has suffered a strong degradation process during the last decades. This is due to a complex phenomenon linked to socioeconomic, political and climate changes, that has brought traditional oasis agriculture to lose its relevance, consequently putting its complex environment in serious danger. The most important factors of degradation of the agricultural system are: land and water scarcity, salinity, silting and the negative impact of various pests and diseases (the most dangerous of which is Bayoud). Small farmers are the most important resource for the surviving of the oasis ecosystem but, on a socio-economic point of view, oasis dwellers, especially the younger ones, tend to search for better livelihood opportunities elsewhere, with consequent loss of traditional knowledge and availability of labour for all agricultural operations. Date palm cultivation is the most important crop in this environment but date production faces several problems along the whole chain (field operations, storage, processing and marketing phases) and the oldest groves are abandoned for new intensive plantations with consequent endangering of biodiversity and genetic heritage. In the last years, the Moroccan Government launched development programs such as the Programme Oasis Sud and the Plan Maroc Vert, with the goal to restore a sustainable oasis ecosystem. The main focus of these interventions is on date post-harvesting operations, improving storage, transformation and marketing capability of farmers and cooperatives, sustaining rural development through market improvement, but most constraints of field operations are still unsolved. This work reports an analysis that has been carried out on Moroccan oases farming system and outlines the main constraints, proposing some possible mitigation interventions, based on the introduction of small mechanization inputs along the production chain, especially for the most dangerous aerial operations such as pollination, harvesting and pruning. Interventions are designed to support and integrate the implementation of the governmental strategies as well as other interventions (e.g., of the international cooperation agencies), allowing to create a network of practice and to build partnerships.en_US
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dc.identifierhttp://www.tropentag.de/2017/abstracts/full/287.pdfen_US
dc.identifierhttps://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/downloadmelspace/hash/3nxpBzM1/v/b29e7c8bbae8ec185c36379970c62f16en_US
dc.identifier.citationFrancesco Garbati Pegna, Pietro Bartolini, L. El Rhaffari, Soumia Fahim, Claudio Zucca, Enrico Bonaiuti, Quang Bao Le. (20/9/2017). Improving the date production chain in the Moroccan oases through small mechanization inputs to support the governmental development strategies. Bonn, Germany.en_US
dc.identifier.statusOpen accessen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/7483
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherTropentagen_US
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-4.0en_US
dc.subjectearth movingen_US
dc.subjectplantationen_US
dc.subjectdiggingen_US
dc.subjectfertilizingen_US
dc.subjectbunch thinningen_US
dc.subjectbunch baggingen_US
dc.subjectmachanization inputsen_US
dc.subjectdevelopment strategiesen_US
dc.subjectfurrowsen_US
dc.subjectdate productionen_US
dc.titleImproving the date production chain in the Moroccan oases through small mechanization inputs to support the governmental development strategiesen_US
dc.typeConference Paperen_US
dcterms.available2017-09-20en_US
dcterms.issued2017-09-20en_US

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