Horticulture in Morocco: North Africa’s California

Abstract

Morocco is an ancient kingdom and an emerging nation occupying a strategic bridge between northwest Africa and Europe. The most westerly nation of the Maghrib (the western Islamic world of North Africa that includes present-day Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and western Libya), Morocco borders both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, separated from Europe’s Iberian peninsula by the narrow straits of Gibraltar (Fig. 1). Geographically, Morocco is African, but there are close links to the Middle East and the Islamic world as well as to Europe via France and Spain.