In an environment that is changing climatically, economically and socially, the oases of North African countries are facing major challenges in terms of their sustainability, even though they represent the last bastions at the gateway to the desert. These agro-ecosystems are gradually deteriorating in the face of increasingly severe climatic constraints (including recurring catastrophic droughts), ill-adapted national agricultural policies, and the difficulty of seeing the emergence of an attractive form of agriculture that will drive the development of these rural areas.
Today, oasis farms are particularly vulnerable and are no longer able to provide sufficient agricultural production for these areas.
In Algeria, to support the development of peri-oasis areas that are resilient in the face of climatic incidents such as drought, the principles of agroecology are a godsend, and improved support mechanisms for oasis agroecology are needed.
