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...
During a workshop in Annweiler in February 2023, the SalidraaJuj team meets to learn two methodologies for participative scenario building. One called “exploratory scenario planning” and the other “three horizons methods”. This workshop was provided by Jan Hanspach, researcher in the Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana...
As part of the multi- and transdisciplinary approach of the Salidraa juj project, which focuses on exchange and cooperation with experts, decision-makers and locals, the meeting with stakeholders in Ouarzazate had the objectives of presenting the results of our research and understanding of the system...
Following meetings in Marrakesh, for now the last ecological field trip took place in September and October 2022, with the aim of collecting additional data from the confluences. However, only at two of four confluences the sampling of macroinvertebrates, algae and physico-chemical parameters was possible,...
The socio-economic team conducted fieldwork in the Middle Draa Valley between September 13 and November 5. Luis worked in an area of the Middle Draa Valley known as Feija, a vast plain containing a shallow aquifer near the city of Zagora. In this plain, watermelon...
