Ability & Status of Morocco's Nomadic Population
Blog Post #4: Ability & Status In visiting the National Agricultural Research Institute Center of Aridoculture & Terre et Humanisme - Maroc I was made to recognize a group of people that I hadn’t really heard of or learned about prior to visiting the institute. For the first time, I gave thought to Morocco’s nomadic population. As a little bit of background on the National Agricultural Research Institute Center of Aridoculture, the organization’s principal founder should be discussed. Pierre Rabhi was an Algerian born humanist that spent dedicated his life to environmentalism and sociology in France & Morocco. After the French colonized Morocco in the 20th century, the French government enacted a series of policies that would force the assimilation and resettlement of Morocco’s nomadic peoples under the guise of civilizing the nation. These peoples (Berbers) would be taken from the life they knew and forced to find permanent settlements on lands they were unfamiliar with.