Les Paiements pour Services Écologiques ou la reconquête de la Mâamora par ses habitants ?

Abstract

Mâamora is an important cork oak forest of the Moroccan coast. Theatre of multiple offenses and object of desires, this forest was chosen as field for a project on environmental goods and services and for many experiments focusing on local population participation on forest management. In this perspective, a mechanism for subsiding grazing prohibition on public forests and partnerships between forest services and cooperatives are already at work. Those instruments could be analyzed whether as tools for empowering local population, or for the reinforcement of forest administration power.

Keywords

• cooperatives
• Mâamora
• subsidies
• uses right
• payments for ecological services