Morocco is facing a major water crisis driven by rapid socioeconomic growth and climate change, a strain felt most acutely in agriculture, where progress has come at the cost of overexploiting water resources and left small farmers especially exposed. This GIZ program responds on three levels: nationally, supporting the Ministry of Equipment and Water on interministerial coordination; regionally, backing river basin agencies across three regions on participatory planning and digital water management; and locally, working in nine pilot villages to train farmers in resilient practices, supply monitoring and testing equipment, and support collective water management. This field reportage followed smallholders through their actual harvest work, picking roses and herbs by hand across dry, water-scarce terrain, grounding the program’s climate-adaptation goals in real people and real crops.
