Moroccan Minister: ‘Food Security is at the Heart of Green Generation Strategy’

Rabat – Food sovereignty is at the core of Morocco’s agricultural strategy “Green Generation,” said the Minister of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development, and Water and Forests, Mohammed Sadiki.

Envisioned in 2018, the Green Generation strategy is a decade-long roadmap for 2020-2030. It follows the milestones of Morocco’s “Green Plan” that laid ground in green development from 2008 to 2021. The new strategy aims to foster a generation of agricultural-based middle class, young entrepreneurs, and innovative agricultural organizations to establish resilient, growing, and eco-efficient Moroccan agriculture.

Mohammed Sadiki is participating in the Paris International Agricultural Show (SIAP) scheduled from February 26 to March 6 and dubbed “Agriculture: Our Daily Life, Your Future!”

The show connects “all the players in the agricultural sector who share unique values and know-how,” stated SIAP’s President Jean-Luc Poulain.

On the sidelines of SIAP, Sadiki stated in an interview with Morocco’s Press Agency that Green Generation “involves food security and food sovereignty, as well as the whole question of strategic stocks as a lever in order to to ensure food security in a global food security system.”

“Today, in terms of production, we have optimized [processes]. The work and the effort will now be concentrated on the downstream of the sectors in terms of valorization and agri-food processing to be able to regulate the storage and strategic stocks,” the minister added.

In addition to attending SIAP, Minister Sadiki participated in a ministerial meeting in Paris along with agriculture ministers from Africa, Europe, and Asia. There, he held bilateral talks with ministers, senior officials, and professionals in the sector.

Sadiki reviewed Morocco-France’s cooperation in the fields of agriculture and maritime fishing with the French Minister of Agriculture and Food Julien Denormandie. The officials focused on strengthening bilateral cooperation between the two countries in agriculture, agri-food, fishing, aquaculture, research, and rural development.

Additionally, Ghita El Ghorfi, Director of Morocco Foodex, accompanied the minister and met with French agricultural stakeholders “interested in trade with the Kingdom and investment in Morocco,” MAP reports,

Morocco Foodex is a “public organization at the service of agri-food exports.” It operates under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture and Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development, Water, and Forestry.