With Morocco heading towards a sixth consecutive year of drought, attention has turned to water-intensive agricultural projects that could be contributing to the nationwide crisis. In 2021, Israel’s largest fruit grower and exporter, Mehadrin, entered into a joint venture agreement with the Moroccan firm Cherdoud to grow avocados across 500 hectares of land. The deal followed the normalisation agreement signed between Israel and Morocco in December 2020 and saw the Israeli company operate in the North African country for the first time. “In Mehadrin’s latest mission statement, we are tasked to…