ABSTRACT
In North Africa, a number of local social scientists have expressed their aversion even to involvement with organizations as the Social Science Research Council and the Ford Foundation. From the mid-1970s on, anthropologists at the Agency for International Development (AID), which at that time had just hired a new cohort of noneconomist social scientists, became especially concerned about the matters. One example of an attempt at an institutional level to enhance local social-science capacity, however, comes from two projects funded by the AID Mission in Morocco. The local representatives of the Ministry of Interior dropped by for tea, and a lively discussion ensued about the future of agriculture in Morocco, and on how the American agricultural revolution had occurred. Despite several false starts, then, United States Agency for International Development /Rabat had been able to make a worthwhile contribution to the development of an applied research capacity in the social as well as agricultural sciences in Morocco.
