Abstract
This article analyzes the place of agriculture in Morocco's development strategy since independence. Although agriculture is officially a priority sector, it fails to ensure the country's food self-sufficiency and security, covering only part of cereal, dairy and edible-oil consumption while employing over 40% of the active population for only 15% of GDP. The author reviews the objectives and means of agricultural policy — the dam-building strategy, the 1969 Agricultural Investment Code, and agricultural credit — and shows that public action has chiefly benefited large irrigated estates, aggravating regional and social inequalities and the proletarianisation of the peasantry. State subsidies, mechanisation, fertiliser and selected-seed use, and the differentiated evolution of deficit and export crops are examined with extensive statistics. The deteriorating agro-food trade balance and growing food dependence are documented. Finally, the article critically assesses the World Bank-sponsored medium-term structural adjustment programme (PAMTSA, 1985-1990), questioning its capacity to reconcile growth and social equity.
Recommended Citation
Seddiki, Abdeslam
(1990)
"Agriculture in the Moroccan Development Strategy,"
Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management): Vol. 9:
Iss.
2, Article 10.
https://doi.org/10.66499/2665-7112.1638
Available at:
https://scholarhub.univh2c.ma/remadeg/vol9/iss2/10
DOI
10.66499/2665-7112.1638