Water and climate change in Maghreb : which strategy of adaptation ? Maghrebian countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) are under Mediterranean climate influence only in a restricted coastal plain. Population growth, rapid urbanisation and economic development increase needs of water supply while the resource is rare. In the new context of global warming, Maghrebian countries aspire to protect their water resources and to provide a sustainable answer to water supply and management issues. Water strategy constitutes an efficient tool for achieving water sector development objectives: thus, the modernization of the water sector will facilitate water resources management efforts and reduce water vulnerability in the region.
Abstract. - The authors offer an appraisal of the successive strategies adopted in the fight against erosion since fifty years in western Algeria. Multiplication of benches on the slopes, reafforestation, attempts at concerted managment knew few successes. The factors of most failures are to be seeked in the lack of means, the absence of assessments and of any hierarchical organization of priorities.
This paper analyses the effects of the projects which intented to control soil erosion and to protect the environment in the western mountains of Algeria. The most of the projects don't reach their objectives, the failures are due to the misappreciation of the natural degradation processes, the used means and the lack of dialogue with rural populations living in the watersheds. These local communities don't have been associated to the conception and the realization of the development programs. The deficiencies of the fundamental studies about the erosion processes and their spatialization have caused empiricaland wrong selected areas of intervention. The content of the programs are dominated by the forestry and technician orientations. The lack of integration of planning local development actions, the mismanagement of the new creations and the abandonment of farming methods vulgarization -in an agricultural crisis context- are the other causes of the failure of these projects described as «agro-sylvo- pastoral» by their sponsors.
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