Algeria Maps Its Industrial Land and Backs Student Ventures as Government Reviews Economic Agenda
ALGIERS — Algeria's government on Wednesday reviewed plans to turn university research into industrial output, alongside the results of a national census of land set aside for economic use, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sifi Ghrieb.
According to a communiqué from the Prime Minister's office, ministers heard a presentation on financing mechanisms for student-led projects that can be industrialized and sold commercially. The schemes have so far supported nearly 1,000 innovative projects. Officials present them as a way to encourage student entrepreneurship and to strengthen the role of universities in diversifying an economy still dependent on hydrocarbons.
The land census follows instructions from President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to inventory industrial land and to digitize the handling of investment files through the One-Stop Shop, the single window where investors submit their projects. Ministers examined the results and the progress of investment projects. The exercise builds on interministerial councils held on 10 and 13 September, in which provincial governors, known as walis, took part by videoconference. The declared aim is a clear map of economic land that separates new investment projects from expansions of existing ones. The communiqué gave no census figures.
The government also heard a presentation on the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan to 2035. The plan complements Algeria's Nationally Determined Contribution, the national pledge on climate action submitted to the United Nations under the Paris Agreement. It sets national adaptation priorities and seeks to build them into public policy.
Access to industrial land has long been a recurring concern for investors in Algeria. A single digital register would give both the administration and investors a reliable picture of what is available and where.
Climate adaptation is no less pressing for a country with vast arid zones, where water stress and drought shape agriculture and daily life.
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