Dr. Abdelali Laamari (male) has a PhD in Economics from the University Hassan 1st. He joined the National Institute for Agricultural Research in 1993. As a head of Socioeconomic Research Department (1996-2003) Laamari was responsible of setting research priorities at INRA and he has participated to different EU research calls and got funds from IDRC projects. He has conducted profitability studies of national breeding programs on wheat, chickpeas, and natural resources technologies. During last ten years he has leaded CRP (Collaborative Research programs) of the CGIAR on energy, climate change, system vulnerability and barley. As a member of INGSA (International Network on Government Science Advices) and African Academy of Science, Laamari introduced new research topics on bridging research and policy and also creating the North African Research and Innovation Association. He was leading many projects on climate change adaptation mechanisms or farmers’ resilience and vulnerability. He has established a good research network within the country and around Europe and other continent. He is now involved in a Master training program on fertilizer bio-sciences at UM6P and a capacity building program of OCP human resources.
The team is also composed by:
Mohamed Boughlala (male) PhD in Economics. Expert in Natural Resource Economics and has leaded many projects on Environmental Economics. He is the regional director of the Dryland Research Center of INRA and coordinating projects on conservation agriculture, water management and food security in collaboration with ICARDA.
Dr. Elkoudrim Mohamed, (male) Agroforestry specialist interested in conservation agriculture based on crop livestock integration. He is responsible of the Research and Development Unit at INRA. He has developed an expertise in GIS and mapping resources.
Dr. Hayat Lionboui (female) is an agricultural economist interested in water economics and system diversification. She conducted different research studies on risk and water management econometric models.
Dr. Benbati Mohamed is an agronomist with experience on water and soil quality, technology transfer and community-based organizations.
Dr. Kawter ElFazazi (female) is an agronomist working on paprika and vegetables. She has knowledge on farmer’s associations and chemical issues of paprika in relation with quality, health and market.
