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Learning to cooperate: a challenge for farmers' participation in Plan Maroc Vert
[Apprendre à coopérer : un défi pour l’adhésion des agriculteurs au plan Maroc vert]

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  • Chloe Vitry

    (UMR Innovation - Innovation et Développement dans l'Agriculture et l'Alimentation - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier)

  • Abdellaoui El Hassane

    (DID - Département Ingénierie du Développement - Ecole nationale d'agriculture de Meknès)

  • Patrick Dugué

    (UMR Innovation - Innovation et Développement dans l'Agriculture et l'Alimentation - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier, DID - Département Ingénierie du Développement - Ecole nationale d'agriculture de Meknès)

  • Eduardo Chia

    (UMR Innovation - Innovation et Développement dans l'Agriculture et l'Alimentation - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier)

Abstract

Cooperation between agricultural stakeholders is an issue which stimulates lots of research. To modernize Moroccan agriculture, the Moroccan government has launched a ten-year programme: the Plan Maroc Vert (PMV), which encourages the creation of farmers' cooperatives or associations. The first PMV results indicate that farmers are reluctant to cooperate. The goal of this paper was to explore the ability of farmers to cooperate: what conditions are needed to develop cooperation? We mainly focused on organizational learning and conducted a series of semi-structured interviews with farmers, cooperative workers and development agents in and around Sebâa Ayoune, near Meknès. We investigated the obstacles to cooperation and the factors affecting the long-term sustainability of cooperatives, identifying eight types of cooperative learning. We built an analytical framework that can be used to identify possible levers of action to enhance cooperation conditions, in particular under the PMV.

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  • Chloe Vitry & Abdellaoui El Hassane & Patrick Dugué & Eduardo Chia, 2015. "Learning to cooperate: a challenge for farmers' participation in Plan Maroc Vert [Apprendre à coopérer : un défi pour l’adhésion des agriculteurs au plan Maroc vert]," Post-Print hal-02631801, HAL.
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    1. Dias, Cláudia & Franco, Mário, 2018. "Cooperation in tradition or tradition in cooperation? Networks of agricultural entrepreneurs," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 36-48.
    2. Colombo, Sergio & Sánchez-Martínez, José Domingo & Perujo-Villanueva, Manuel, 2020. "The trade-offs between economic efficiency and job creation in olive grove smallholdings," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 96(C).

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