Mid-term review : sustainable management of Algerien steppes; a participatory learning approach / la gestion durable des parcours steppiques; la voie de l'apprentissage participatif

Though only at its mid-term, the project has been successful in policy influence, securing funding which for the first time will be used for forest and pastoral plantations on farmers’ land, without expropriating them, and thus assuring joint responsibility for proper management. New models put forward by the project combine preservation measures with intensive irrigated fodder production, and development of complementary income-generating activities involving olive and fruit-tree plantations. The project has designed effective new models for steppe management, with a high probability of being taken up by the Algerian government as well as replicated in other zones in the country.