Sixty years of the development projects and combating the environment and natural resources degradation in arid and semi-arid areas in Rif mountains in Morocco

The development programs have been carried out to deal with the degradation phenomena since 1960 in Rif Mountains in northern Morocco. These conservation and preservation projects of natural resources implemented using either mechanical or biological techniques. The objective of this text is to evaluate the strategy undertaken for water and soil conservation to curb poor land-use practices and to assess the investment in water and soil conservation actions adopted the administrative approach that does not involve the locals by encouraging their effective participation in the identification, formulation, programming, execution, and monitoring of the actions to be carried out.