Study site description: Zeuss Koutine, Tunisia

Table of Contents

1. Responsible IP partner
2. General Information
3. Bio-physical description
4. Socio-economic description
5. Institutional and political setting
6. Relevant end-users / stakeholder groups
7. Past and on-going projects

Institutional and political setting

The institutional network in the study region is relatively dense made of :

• Basic organizations formed by a grouping of agricultural development (GDA), a co-operative of agricultural services (CSA) and 23 groupings of collective interests (GIC);
• 4 NGOs: AJZ (Association des Jeunes de Zammour), ADD (Association de Développement Durable), APBB (Association de la Protection de la Biodiversité à Béni Khédache), ACPPBK (Association de Conservation du Patrimoine), etc.
• Representatives of the central administration/ministries: UTAP (farmer union), UNFT (women union), the ODS (development agency of the south), CTV (agriculture), OEP (grazing and livestock agency)