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Combining role-playing games and policy simulation exercises: An experience with Moroccan smallholder farmers

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  • Mathieu Dionnet

    (Cemagref, France, mathieu.dionnet@cemagref.fr)

  • Marcel Kuper

    (CIRAD, France, kuper@cirad.fr)

  • Ali Hammani

    (IAV Hassan , Morocco, a.hammani@iav.ac.ma)

  • Patrice Garin

    (Cemagref, France, patrice.garin@cemagref.fr)

Abstract

Moroccan agriculture is currently undergoing major political, socioeconomic, and environmental transitions. Smallholder farmers involved in large-scale irrigation schemes need to modernize their systems to face these challenges. In this study, a participatory process incorporating different simulation and gaming tools was designed and applied to accompany farmer groups in designing joint irrigation projects, generally drip irrigation systems. A role-playing game was used in the first phase of the process to raise awareness among farmers about the scope and contents of a joint irrigation project and list the different knowledge gaps. During the second phase, a policy simulation exercise based on the actual field situation enabled farmer groups to design their own joint drip irrigation project. As a result, several farmer groups produced a feasibility study for their joint drip irrigation system. Our experience highlighted the complementarity of these tools in a process of change. The abstract role-playing game provided valid learning experience while the realistic simulation supported concrete decision making.

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  • Mathieu Dionnet & Marcel Kuper & Ali Hammani & Patrice Garin, 2008. "Combining role-playing games and policy simulation exercises: An experience with Moroccan smallholder farmers," Simulation & Gaming, , vol. 39(4), pages 498-514, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:simgam:v:39:y:2008:i:4:p:498-514
    DOI: 10.1177/1046878107311958
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