The Collective Lands in Moroccan Oases: From Local Tribal Management to Privatization and the Market System

مؤسسة الشرق الأوسط للنشر العلمي

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الإصدار الثالث والعشرون: 06 سبتمبر 2024
من مجلة الشرق الأوسط للنشر العلمي

The Collective Lands in Moroccan Oases: From Local Tribal Management to Privatization and the Market System

Oumouassan Mouhssine
Abstract

This article highlights a fundamental idea that the continuation of the Moroccan state's use of collective land systems during the post-independence period, following the approach of the French colonial administration, did not prevent it at the beginning of the third millennium from integrating collective lands into the privatization and market system. This move signals a neoliberal direction that benefits Moroccan bourgeois investors and foreign multinational companies under the pretext of implementing development plans and strategies. Conversely, it will impact rights-holders to collective land as their land is converted into private property making it difficult for them to access their lands. Therefore, this article seeks to emphasize the ineffectiveness of this developmental trend, especially in the context of Moroccan oases, which are characterized by fragility. Therefore, it is necessary to find a solution to the problem of collective lands via a reasonable and radical strategy to achieve sustainable local development.

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