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An internship period spent in the north of Morocco kingdom (Tetouan) gave a contribute to the organization activity in promoting sustainable development in the rural areas under the Kyoto Protocol. The multitasking project will increase biodiversity planting trees for wood, forage and fruits productions. The paper show a first step study to evaluate the possibility to reach an agreement with the propriety and the manager of these areas in a multifunctional reforestation project. The eligible site suitable for reforestation in accordance with the CDM international scheme is a large plateau (more than 5000 hectares) 600 meters high on the sea level far from the Cannabis crops area. The evaluation of the project costs and of the social benefits for the population consider (using different species) the indigenous communities necessity. The evaluation of carbon sequestration show the small scale of the reforestation project on behalf of the Kyoto Protocol, but give also an idea about the people rights and necessities. The normal afforestation and reforestation projects, under the Kyoto Protocol, try to maximize the CO2 sequestration in a short time, than business laws usually require. A small scale project could be self-managing, less expensive (international certification costs) and more interesting for local communities.

One of the main problems in the debate around land consumption concerns the need to address actions of urban regeneration towards the restoration of consumed land rather than mere containment of land consumption. The poor appreciation of the value related to those transformations aimed at re-covering free areas, imposes an estimative remark aimed at the definition of tools able of comparing the benefits related to ecosystem services and those related to ordinary transformations. A key role needs to be held by local communities that, conveniently involved in the assessment, can help ad-dressing urgencies and emergencies of the studied environment, and at the same time actively participate to the process of territorial, social and cultural transformation.