Opportunities and challenges of peri-urban agriculture on the fringes of the Metropolis of Rabat, Morocco | JBES 2021
Fatiha Hakimi, Mohamed Brech
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Urban Farm DB summary
A survey of 50 purposively and stratified-randomly sampled farmers in the Metropolis of Rabat, Morocco, used field observation, interviews, chi-square tests and Principal Component Analysis to assess peri-urban agriculture practices. The main practices found were horticulture (fruit and vegetables), crop farming and livestock rearing (beef, sheep, poultry), contributing income, employment and food supply to the city; farmers face legal constraints — no laws regulating the activity and obligations to pay housing taxes — plus technical constraints including insufficient and costly labor, difficult irrigation access, and lack of training and technical support.