Global Climate Pattern Impacts on Long-Term Olive Yields in Northwestern Africa: Case from Souss-Massa Region

• Published in: Sustainability
• Main Authors: Abahous, Houria, Bouchaou, Lhoussaine, Chehbouni, Abdelghani
• Other Authors: Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique = Mohammed VI Polytechnic University Ben Guerir (UM6P), Université Ibn Zohr = Ibn Zohr University Agadir, Centre d'études spatiales de la biosphère (CESBIO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: CCSD 2021
• Subjects: climate oscillation; olive yields; semi-arid; agriculture; wavelet coherence; climate oscillation olive yields semi-arid agriculture wavelet coherence; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Indian; Kendall; Pacific; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://ut3-toulouseinp.hal.science/hal-04886349; https://ut3-toulouseinp.hal.science/hal-04886349v1/document; https://ut3-toulouseinp.hal.science/hal-04886349v1/file/Abahous_2021.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13031340

International audience In arid to semi-arid regions, vulnerability to climate change combined with the overexploitation of water resources is jeopardizing food security. In the Souss-Massa region in central Morocco, the rural population relies on growing olives for a living. The management of these...