“Morocco has become ‘the ninth Andalusian province’ for avocado production” The Moroccan avocado campaign is underway with some volumes affected as a result of storm Bernard, although the impact on the country’s total volume won’t be very representative. The first truckloads of Moroccan avocados are already departing from Alcoaxarquia Maroc’s new processing plant, located in ...

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT has announced that it is partnering with University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) to form the UM6P-J-PAL Agricultural Lab for Africa.  Hosted at UM6P in Morocco, the lab will work to design and implement rigorous impact evaluations of policies and programmes that improve food security in ...