The third International Oasis Forum tackles family farming

The third edition of the International Forum on Oases and Local Development will take place this year from 18 to 21 December in Zagora, under the theme “Family farming in oases: opportunities and threats.” Initiated by the Association of the International Forum on Oases of Zagora, this event, which is part of an international dynamic this year—the International Year of Family Farming proclaimed by the UN—intends to allow the various local actors to look back at both the opportunities to be seized and the challenges and perspectives for promising development. Organised in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Agency for the Development of Oasis and Argan Zones, the National Agency for the Development of the Southern Provinces, the Zagora province, the urban commune of Zagora, and the Souss-Massa-Drâa Regional Council, this Forum intends to contribute to the promotion…