Study day: For a radical revision of the law relating to collective lands

Participants in a study day, Saturday in Tahla, on the subject of collective lands and their role in development, have strongly called for the abolition of the 1919 Dahir relating to collective lands. During this meeting organised by the Adrar Association, researchers, academics, associative actors, representatives of ethnic communities, elected officials, representatives of unions, and political parties underlined the imperative need to promulgate a new law relating to the management of collective lands. A way, they say, to overcome all the shortcomings and dedicate these lands to development. The 1919 law has, for a long time, no longer been able to meet the aspirations of the populations and rights holders. "These lands have for decades been the object of dilapidation by networks composed of members of local authorities, speculators, and "nouabs" driven by ignorance and their poverty…