Resilient and Sustainable Water in Agriculture

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The proposed project aims at : (i) implementing complementary Water Conservation Policies (Component 1) to enhance the governance framework of Water in Agriculture to ensure sustainability of water withdrawals from the agricultural sector, both surface and groundwater; (ii) scaling up benefits of irrigation modernization to new areas, mainly in Tadla and Souss-Massa regions (Component 2); and (iii) ensuring that advisory services with adequate coverage and quality will allow farmers to make the optimum use of hard and soft investments (Component 3).The project is organized around five components of the project as follows: (i) Component 1: Enhancement of Water in Agriculture governance in a context of increasing water scarcity (with Performance-Based Conditions - PBCs); (ii) Component 2: Modernization of Irrigation and Drainage services; (iii) Component 3: Improvement of access to advisory services and to modern on-farm technologies; (iv) Component 4: Project Management; and (v) Component 5: Contingent Emergency Response Component.