Type

Report

Author

Hamza, M.
El Faskaoui, B.
Fermin, A.

Title

Migration and environmental change in Morocco: The case of rural oasis villages in the Middle Drâa Valley

Year

2008

Publisher

United Nations University EHS

Abstract

The impact of environmental constraints is very relative. Over time, people adapt and create mechanisms and relevant strategies to adapt to these constraints and to transcend them. It is more appropriate to consider environmental constraints and degradation as weakening
elements within a local society capable of triggering outmigration and other transformations at any moment, especially when they aggravate suddenly and brutally (droughts, dam building).
[…]
Interviews with rural inhabitants and migrants show that according to them the negative impact of environmental degradation on agriculture and livestock farming over the last decades is a main motive for migration.
[…]
The expert interviews indicate that the relation between environment and migration is much more complex and less deterministic.

Citation

Hamza, M., et al. (2008). Migration and environmental change in Morocco: The case of rural oasis villages in the Middle Drâa Valley, United Nations University EHS -EACH FOR- Case study Report.

Available

http://maithamza.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/migration-and-environmental-change-in-morocco-the-case-ait-hamza-mohamed.pdf