Partner 3 - SUD TIMMI (Societe Sud Timmi Sarl), Adrar, Algeria

Sarl Société, Sud Timmi has a large and consolidate experience in the field of construction and rehabilitation of Foggara in Algerian Sahara

  • 1995 - Realization of works of Tilane FOGGARA – Adrar
  • 1997 - Realization of works of Amiguid FOGGARA – Adrar
  • 1999 - Realization of works for Meraguene FOGGARA – Adrar
  • 2000 - Realization of works for Ouled Bohufas Commun FOGGARA – Adrar

Sarl Société Sud Timmi is currently participating as a partner in the following international projects :
Foggara. Inventory, analysis and valorization of traditional water techniques of European and Saharan drainage tunnels (granted by European Commission )
Training Project to recover and enhance Algiers Casbah by traditional techniques and their innovative use (granted by Italian Foreign Office).

Role of partner

Partner SUD TIMMI will be in charge of the research activities related to the classification, restoration and valorization of SAOURA Foggara according to their historical values and hydric functions in Algeria (WP3)

Principal personnel involved in the project

Abdelkrim Benhassan

Responsible for WP3, Engineer , Director of the Society


Technical Staff:
Bouchiba Ahmed, Benhassan Ahmed, Ben Madahi Ahmed, Hamdi Salem


Consultants:

Prof. Dr. Iwao Kobori

is specialized in Research on Water Problems in Arid Zones.
His international activities include his role as Visiting Professor, University of Michigan (1972), Director, Maison du Japon, Cité Internationale de l’Université de Paris (1982-1984), Member of Executive Board of ICRISAT (1976-1982), Board of Trustees of ICARDA (1996-at present, Vice-chair), Council Member of International Drylands Development Commission (1993-until the present time ). Other activities include IGU Commission, Desertification in and around Arid Lands, Advisor on Arabia Plan & Experts on Space Archaeology & Qanat, UNESCO/Expert, preparatory workshop on Desertification, UNEP/Expert, the Middle-East Peace Process Initiative, the World Bank, and many other institutions.

He was the first President of the Japanese Association for Arid Land Studies (1990-2000) and also President of Société Franco-Japonaise de Géographie (1995, now Honorary President), Honorary member of Societa di Geografia Italiana, Société de Géographie de Paris.

He has conducted many international missions to Asia, Africa and Latin America mainly for the research on Water Problems in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands, especially the Qanat system and Oasis studies. He has written more than 100 articles, eight books, edited ten publications and translated seven titles.

Recent publications in relation with Foggra and Qanat

  • 1987 Mambo – Japanese Qanat (in Japanese), Mie University, 350 pp.
  • 1994 Japan’s Role for Research and Aid for the Sahel (in Japanese), JICA, 95 pp.
  • 1995 * Water System in Arid Lands (in Japanese and English), Meiji University, 328 pp.
  • 1997 Fresh Water: A Scarce Resource in Arid Lands. “Fresh Water Resources in Arid Lands” UNU Press.
  • Participative management of the Water Resources in Agriculture – Case study of In Belbel and Matriouen in the Algeria Sahara, “Water Management in Arid Lands, pp. 104-115, UNU.

Note: * Comprises most important articles including thesis of Dr. Sc. (1968, the University of Tokyo) on Water System in Algeria, Syria, Xinjiang, Arabia, Central Andes, and Latin America based on the University of Tokyo missions (1956-1980 and follow-up missions up to 1990).

Joshka Wessels

Anthropologist

Research Activities
From 1997 until end 2001 she was living and working as an Associate Expert for Dutch Development Assistance in Aleppo, Syria. She was seconded for four years to the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) where she carried out various tasks. Main task during the last two years(1999-2001) was to conduct and manage an applied anthropological research project on the modern use of ancient water tunnel systems called "Qanats". During this project one Qanat tunnel in a remote village East of Aleppo has been cleaned and renovated as a pilot case study. Lastly we conducted with an interdisciplinary team, a national survey and documented all the current sites in Syria where the Qanats are still used in 2001.

Publications

  • Little Waterfall; Renovating Qanats in a Changing World, a Case Study in Syria, Paper presented at the International Symposium on Qanats, Organised by UNESCO, Yazd, Iran, May 2000 (in press, Oxford University Press),
  • Renovating Traditional Water Supply Systems in Syria, J. Wessels, R. Hoogeveen, A. Aw-Hassan, Autumn 2001, (ICARDA poster),
  • Are informal institutions adequate for co-operation on water use?, A case of qanats in the Middle East Wessels et al, INAMO a Journal on the Middle East, Autumn 2001.

BEDE (La Bibliothèque d'Echange de Documentation et d'Expériences),

ASBL created in 1994, facilitate knowledge exchange between North and South Med Countries. Activities : support to associations projects on environment and development ; creation of an exchange information system (Interface project); coordination of Euro-Algerian Forum of associations and partners in Brussels, April 2001; collaboration in the organization of “Participating management of Beni-Abbes oasis water” (Algeria); facilitated Maghreb rural organizations participation in the international meeting process “Growing Diversity” organized by GRAIN (Barcelona); participation to the French “OGM Veille Citoyenne” elaborating a pedagogic dossier on genetically modified organisms; support to Francophone Africa documentation and training.

Mr Ababsa Smati Fayçal

Applied agronomic sciences engineering degree, economic managing (ITA/Mostaganem/Algérie)(1974); « Etudes Supérieures » degree, IAM Montpellier, France, specialization in rural development (1975) ; « Etudes Supérieures » degree, Université de Bourgogne, France (1986). State Engineering promotion. (1986). Chargé de Recherche at INRAA (1997).
Main competences : Trainer in rural economy and management. Stages responsible for Agronomic engineers, teachers and researchers. Institute director and teacher at ITAS de Ouargla. Oasis agriculture and Sahara development expert and researcher. Consultant at Banque Mondiale (development of Sahara regions). Member and president of INRAA Scientific Council, Algeria.