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CRP1.1 Dryland Systems: Integrated and Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods in Dry Areas Regional Inception Workshop for North Africa & West Asia July 2-4, 2012 - Golden Tulip Farah Hotel -Rabat, Morocco. Working group 1.
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CRP1.1 Dryland Systems: Integrated and Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods in Dry Areas Regional Inception Workshop for North Africa & West Asia July 2-4, 2012 - Golden Tulip Farah Hotel -Rabat, Morocco.
Working group 1 Sustainable Intensification/High potential areas
1. Characterization of the action sites Iran Morocco Egypt Karkheh river Basin Meknes Saïs Nile Delta
Target research intervention zones • In Morocco, two intervention zones were selected based on the cropping system: • Zone of AïnJamaa (Wheat Intensification) • Zone of NzaltBeni Ammar (Reconversion of wheat by Olive) • In Iran and Egypt the selected zones are already identified
Constraints in Moroccan site Wheatbased system Fruit tree system Vegetablebased system • Low input/technical use • Lack of technical package • Market (value chain) • Product quality • Lack of labor • - Water quality • Lowsoilfertility • Lack of diversification • Low input use • Post harvestloss • Low rate of agronomic packages adoption • market • Socio-economicconstraints • Lack of economicscale • Land fragmentation
In Moroccan site • Data on land use/land cover will be updated (p.92): • 5.1.2 • 5.1.3 • 5.1.4 • 5.1.7 • 5.2.1 • 5.2.2
Constraints in Iranian site • Lack of proper agricultural machinery for all soil types and small farms • - Low institutional capacity of farmers associations/aggregation • - Lack of information on water productivity for no-tillage system in crop rotation • - Lack of proper Water harvesting systems
3. Research hypotheses • Hyp 1: Someform of farmaggregation (association/organizedfarmers groups) willlead to the realization of economies of size, therebyleading to increasedaccess to input innovations, improvedmarketefficiencies, competitiveness and value addition • Hyp 2: retained • Hyp 3: Water and land productivities in irrigated agriculture cansustainiblybeincreasedthroughmodifiedcropping patterns, salinity control, policy and institutionnal setups • Hyp 4: retained • Hyp 5: retained • Hyp 6: System analysis of production, landscape and market system performance willallow optimal intensification of the production and marketsystems and the assessment of potential impact of innovations both in socio-economic and ecologicalterms
4. Major research outcomes • Divesification of cropping system • Aggreggation