ABSTRACT
Human activity, specifically overgrazing and cropping, and climate change are driving Moroccan rangelands in the Eastern Highlands to degradation and inability to maintain livestock anymore. This dreadful condition is becoming permanent and irreversible. To face this situation the Government of Morocco in collaboration with IFAD is running the PDPEO (Livestock and Pastoral Development Project in the Eastern region), now in its second phase, to improve rangeland management through temporary protection, plantation of fodder shrubs, reseeding, scarification, improvement of health services or fattening.
