The traditional organization of the agricultural space in mountain areas: between the satisfaction of economic needs and the issue of the sustainability of ecological resources

Abstract

The mountain community of Great Western Atlas has established a territorial organization where they achieved a good balance on resources by optimizing its components. The Community realized a good fairness on the available resources in the “villagers' landholdings” as a geographic unit that clearly demonstrates the extent to which the population is willing to achieve equality between ecology, economic activities and human needs. Investing on its Agricultural knowledge and pastoral heritage. Based on this, the encompassed agriculture is organized according to a triangle of agriculture, grazing and housing, taking into consideration the sustainability of limited resources. However, the deep changes related to the expansion of nonagricultural activities -basically the tourism- affected the traditional organization and killed the community work that lead more to individual goals.