ABSTRACT
This chapter adopts a similar approach to Daya (2014) to explore the producer stories of Amazigh women argan oil producers. It takes a narrative approach and tells the stories of women from several cooperatives about the solidarity of the cooperatives, improvements to lifestyles and well-being, aspects of the women’s skill and human development through the cooperatives, gender and family issues and challenges that arise, and noting the hard daily labour in working in the cooperatives. The chapter reflects on these overall changes in the women’s lives as a result of working in the argan cooperatives, and as set against a broader feminist movement in Northern Africa and particularly Morocco, where women are increasingly achieving improved rights and equalities. Amazigh women face additional challenges as an Indigenous majority population, but the cooperatives have gone some way towards increasing recognition of the lives, traditions and culture of these women.
