OULAD SLAMA, Morocco — Sheep come running when Larbi El Ghazouani pours alfalfa and straw into their troughs twice a day. The 55-year-old farmer had counted on selling the bulk of his 130 sheep ...

They will make dishes like boulfaf, grilled skewers of seared lamb wrapped in caul fat. Image King Mohammed VI, who is also Morocco’s religious leader, cited “climatic and economic challenges ...

It costs El Ghazouani roughly 1,500 Moroccan dirhams ($150) to feed a sheep for one year on a diet of straw, alfalfa and fava beans — a 50% spike from only three years ago. Now he and other ...