Several activities have been undertaken by AIRD under this activity, supported by the Middle East Partnership Initiative and USAID/Morocco:

• In March 2004, AIRD economist Lynn Salinger helped to prepare a public advocacy program for the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture to explain the expected impact of the U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement on Morocco’s agricultural sector and to develop support for recommended policy changes.
• In January 2006, Ms. Salinger provided training in agricultural price policy analysis to cadres from several divisions of the Ministry of Agriculture, to refresh analytic tools first introduced by AIRD in the Ministry of Agriculture in 1985.
• In March 2006, AIRD organized a study tour to the U.S. for three officials of the Ministry of Agriculture to learn about the U.S. food industry and to better understand how the U.S. promotes its own food exports. The tour brought the Moroccan delegation to Boston, Washington, and New York. Meetings were arranged with import agents, food importers and processors, specialty food stores, a retail grocery chain, a food laboratory, trade associations, and U.S. export promotion programs. The delegation also attended a major food trade show.