Timenkar_2025_May_7
Why this photo?
- - A large and paved road is passing through the plateau since 5 years only
- - The road is both a component of the system allowing easy links bewteen villages and fields and a link with its environment (the city of Marrakech and adjacents valleys.
Question/Answer
• Q : What do you see in this picture which needs to be taken into account when analysing the Timkar plateau as a system ? A : a road.
• Q : which positive effect do you see of this road for the communities of the plateau ? A : reduction of time spent (and costs ?) in commuting to nearby villages and to the city for off-farm activities ; link to market ; opportunities to go to school for children ; Q : others ?
• Q : Which negative effect do you see for the communities and farming systems of the plateau ? A : more opportunities for cash crops because of market linkages leading to focuss on these crops leading to reduction of agrobiodiversity at the expense of subsistence crops and biodiversity. Q : others ?
• Q : which positive effect do you see of this road for the communities of the plateau ? A : reduction of time spent (and costs ?) in commuting to nearby villages and to the city for off-farm activities ; link to market ; opportunities to go to school for children ; Q : others ?
• Q : Which negative effect do you see for the communities and farming systems of the plateau ? A : more opportunities for cash crops because of market linkages leading to focuss on these crops leading to reduction of agrobiodiversity at the expense of subsistence crops and biodiversity. Q : others ?