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...
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...
Following the Moroccan field trips, the SaliDraa-Team was taking part at the 2nd SIBECOL-AIL Meeting 2022, taking place from the 3rd to 8th July in the Portuguese city of Aveiro. While the main audience of the conference is conducting research in the Iberian Peninsula, the...
In June 2022, a further field trip was conducted to collect samples from the previous visited sampling sites, covering the middle of the dry season. While this field campaign was the for now last one to visit all the sites selected already in February 2020,...
