Agriculture Minister Ahmed El Bouari represented Morocco at the 18th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture held January 14-17 in Berlin during International Green Week. The Kingdom’s participation reaffirmed commitment to integrated sustainable water resource management, resilient agriculture, and strengthened international cooperation supporting food security and sustainable development.
Organized under the theme “Water. Crops. Our Future,” the 2026 edition highlighted water’s central role in food security and sustainable agricultural development. Discussions addressed four major axes: sustainable water use, strengthening blue bioeconomy, reconciling different water resource uses, and reinforcing international water governance.
Morocco participated in a high-level panel jointly organized by the African Union’s Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment Department and Germany’s Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity, focusing on sustainable water resource management serving African food security.
Moroccan participation spotlighted the Kingdom’s integrated water management and agricultural modernization experience, presented as an inspiring and replicable model at African scale. Recognized for commitment to sustainable agricultural systems at African and international levels, Morocco highlighted public policies and sectoral strategies reinforcing agricultural sector resilience, water use efficiency, and climate change adaptation.
The Generation Green 2020-2030 strategy was presented as a structuring framework placing water at the heart of national agricultural system transformation. Morocco emphasized innovation’s central role, strategic planning, and African cooperation in strengthening agricultural system resilience facing climate change, reaffirming commitment to food security, sustainable agricultural development, and strengthened South-South partnership.
Morocco has pursued assertive agricultural water management policy for several years, based on efficient irrigation development, hydraulic infrastructure modernization, and unconventional water resource utilization. Currently, irrigated agriculture representing approximately 16% of useful agricultural area plays a determining role in food security and rural employment. Water-efficient irrigation techniques now cover nearly 56% of irrigated areas against less than 10% fifteen years ago.
