On the 30th of September 2024, Imane Mahjoubi defended her PhD thesis on "Water ecosystem services under the effect of water Scarcity in the Middle Drâa Valley, south Morocco: Local perceptions and economic valuation towards an integration into Regional Decision-making processes." at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau...
On September 27, 2024, researcher Luis Miguel Silva-Novoa Sánchez successfully defended his doctoral thesis, titled “Water Governance Challenges in the Middle Drâa Valley of Morocco: Analysing Policies, Practices, and Conflict.” His research focuses on the governance challenges faced by arid regions, such as the Drâa...
The 6th EMCEI (Euro-Mediterranean Conference for Environmental Integration) took place in Marrakesh, Morocco, in mid-May 2024. The SaliDraajuj team not only participated in the conference with a variety of presentations by our researchers, but also hosted a special session on "Salinity in arid ecosystems". This...
20 RPTU students, most of whom are studying for Bachelor's and Master's degrees of education in Biology, took part in a excursion to Morocco in April 2024. The aim of the trip was to learn more about biodiversity and its conservation while experiencing the effects...
On the 10th of February 2024, Mokhtar Benlasri defended his PhD thesis on “Les Macroinvértebrés aquatiques du bassin de Drâa (Maroc): Taxonomie, Biogéographie et Bioécologie."” at the Université Cadi Ayyad in Marrakech. ...
After completion of most of the fieldwork in autumn 2022, the activities of the Salidraa juj team focused on data analysis and writing research papers. To present the results to a wider audience, gain new insights, and promote networking, the team also participated in various...
The Salidraa juj team travelled to Morocco in early September to conduct scenario development workshops with residents of the Draa catchment area in Skoura and Zagora. The first stop was Marrakech to meet the whole team and finalise the preparations for the workshop. Shortly before landing...
On the 4th of September, Nils Kaczmarek defended his PhD thesis on "Macroinvertebrate community composition and ecosystem health in response to salinity and environmental change in the Draa River basin, Morocco" at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau. The dissertation can be viewed here. ...
The most recent socio-economic field trip took place in June 2023, where the socio-economic team revisited the Middle Draa valley to conduct fieldwork to gather data on groundwater governance from the Faija and Fezouata areas. The goal was to assess the challenges and opportunities presented...
In Jun 2023, the social-economic team organized two focus group discussions with farmers of Faija, in the province of Zagora. The objective of these discussions was to assess their perceptions of the Faija aquifer contract recently signed, their level of participation in the various phases...
