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The African Development Bank Group's Board of Directors approved a EUR 100 million loan to Morocco on 21 July 2025 to finance an Inclusive Solidarity-Based Agriculture Program. The program is designed to generate sustainable economic opportunities for women and youth by deploying new agricultural production and service infrastructure, tailored financing and incentive mechanisms, and strengthened technical and financial support systems — aiming to anchor women in local value chains, boost productivity, and stimulate rural entrepreneurship in agriculture and agro-processing. It supports implementation of three national frameworks: the Green Generation 2020-2030 Strategy (Morocco's plan to transform agriculture into a more inclusive, sustainable, and efficient sector), the National Solidarity Agriculture Program, and the National Youth Entrepreneurship Program. Global Trade Alert (State Act 93586 / Intervention 147868) classifies the instrument as an in-kind grant, dating both announcement and implementation to 2025-07-21, and lists cereals, vegetables, and fruit-and-nuts as the covered sectors — consistent with the primary-agricultural-production focus of the AfDB program. Severity is set at 2, in line with other single-country AfDB development-finance packages already in the register (e.g., the Kenya OrPower Twenty- Two geothermal loan, the Nigeria SAPZ Phase II tranche).
the wider Maghreb/Sahel, alongside similar AfDB agriculture and infrastructure lending tracked elsewhere in the register (Kenya, Nigeria).
subsidize Moroccan small-scale producer competitiveness and rural entrepreneurship rather than restrict trade directly.
strategy, which has been a recurring anchor for state-aid and development-finance measures in the register.
government counterpart agency administering the program were not disclosed in the AfDB press release.
terms ("sustainable economic opportunities," "value and employment creation") without concrete figures in public AfDB or secondary coverage.