I am an animal scientist, interest in dairy production systems.
At the beginning of my career, I have investigated the determinants of smallholder herds’ performances in Morocco: milk yield and quality, profitability, etc. Then, I began working on crop/livestock integration. This brought me to study water productivity in dual purpose herds (milk and meat simultaneously), as well as water volumes used and their origins (rainfall and/or irrigation) by the other crops on farms.
The interest devoted to resource uses also meant that I tried to characterize work uses in the Moroccan agricultural sector, in various regions (rain-fed, irrigations schemes, oases, etc) and the remuneration of this input.