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Enhancing the Resilience of the Tarmkiste Oasis Ecosystem to the impacts of Climate Change
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The project aims to work with a rural oasis community in southern Morocco. The village is faced with high levels of environmental degradation, which contributes to significant outmigration. These pressures will be significantly exacerbated by climate change impacts. Climate change is projected to increase temperatures and reduce rainfall throughout Morocco. Declining rainfall in the Anti-Atlas Mountains will reduce the groundwater available to communities throughout southern Morocco, where rainfall is scarce, threatening Oasis ecosystems in several ways:
1.) Increasing aridity will reduce fuelwood resources outside of the Oasis. This will increase pressures on date palm – the foundation of the Oasis ecosystem – prompting community members to cut palm for cooking needs. This threatens the cool Oasis microclimate, increasing stress on shade-grown plants and increasing erosion risks;
2.)Increasing evaporative pressure is likely to render insufficient baseline activities aimed at water mobilization, reducing water available to palms, making them more susceptible to disease, and further threatening the oasis microclimate;
3.) Increased risk of dune mobilization, and consequent threats to key water sources.
Project Components:
Renforcer la capacité d’adaptation de la communauté de Tarmguiste face aux risques liés aux changements climatiques, y compris la variabilité (en particulier la baisse des ressources en eau engendrée par l’augmentation des températures et la diminution et l’instabilité des précipitations) à travers l’amélioration de la gestion de l’eau, le renforcement du système d’agroforesterie et l’instauration d’une politique de dialogue participatif au niveau local.
Expected Outputs:
1.) Community capacity to manage risks to water and agroforestry systems will be improved through the plantation of more appropriate climate-resilient palm varieties; through the introduction of more efficient ovens, to reduce pressures on palm trees that will be decreasingly resilient to fuelwood cutting due to increasing aridity – thereby maintaining the threatened role of palm in maintaining the local microclimate and soils (this output to be supported with co-financing); through the development of palm barriers around water sources threatened by increasing risks of desertification and dune mobilization; through the demonstrations of improved irrigation technology in a pilot site, in the face of the decreasing ability of traditional irrigation systems to maintain the oasis ecosystem; and through the development of a revolving fund system to improve the access of this climate-resilient technology for local farmers, and to facilitate ongoing adaptation-related activities once initial loans are repaid.
2.) The capacity of the community to understand, to take steps to organize and address climate change will be strengthened by having awareness raising activities for the community on at long-term climate risks, by having training activities in climate-resilient agriculture and oasis ecosystem management, by establishing of a community-wide enforceable contractual framework promoting efficient and cooperative use of shared soil and water resources.
3.) Local and national policies related to adaptation, as well as global knowledge products, will be informed by results of project by documenting lessons learned and practices piloted in the project on adaptation to the lower levels of groundwater, and an increase in aridity in oasis agroecosystems (in the form of documents or multimedia products), the incorporation of lessons learned and identified best practices into local development plans, and the dissemination of lessons learned global knowledge networks.
Contacts:
M. Mohammed HOUMYMID, Coordinateur national Email. m.houmymid@gmail.com Tel. +212 5 37 70 96 48 Fax. +212 5 37 70 96 09 Mme Bouchra HASSOUNE, Coordinatrice Province de Guelmim - MAROC Email. bouchrahassoune@yahoo.fr Tel. + 212 6 61 92 99 70 Fax. +212 5 28 87 01 36 Mr. Pradeep Kurukulasuriya Technical Advisor, BDP/EEG Email: pradeep.kurukulasuriya@undp.org Tel: +1 (212) 906 6843 Mr. Lamiss Naciri National Coordinator UNDP GEF Small Grants Programme- Morocco Tel: 212 37 6611435 Email: fempmf_naciri@menara.ma
Primary Beneficiaries:
Oasis de TARMGUISTE, Commune Rurale de Asrir, Province de Guelmim, MAROResources:
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