As part of a larger ongoing project, Capitalizing Morocco, I am exploring the research of Yasmine Berriane and the art of Yto Barrada, as they address the current politics and geopoetics of the environmental patrimony in Morocco. Capitalizing Morocco, a work in progress, explores the modernization of Morocco and its recent development of non-Arabic (especially Anglophone) print, digital and economic literacies, “capitalizing” its geo- identity. In her artwork and practice, Yto Barrada has explored the natural history of Morocco and its ecological patrimony, creating sculpture, prints, books and films about the botanical and geological history, about land use and loss in development. In her book A Guide to Trees; for Governors and Gardeners 2011 (limited, numbered, signed edition of 350+25A.P.), Yto Barrada speaks of Morocco and also to Morocco, posing questions about land and landscape, power and capital. In her sculpted world map Tectonic Plate (2010) and with her Lyautey Unit blocks and dinosaur on wheels (2010), she plays with geography, colonial history, and geological history, challenging the revaluation of Morocco’s natural patrimony in a world market. The research work of Yasmine Berriane, informed by political science and ethnography, also explores the natural heritage of Morocco, “with an emphasis on power relations, practices and institutional changes in these contexts where neoliberal reforms and norms are introduced. “ Yasmine Berriane describes her current project “on the link between the intensified commodification of land and the emergence of new forms of protest and negotiation, and of processes of differentiation in the Maghreb.” This work extends her earlier work on indirect forms of rule, in intermediary spaces of participation and movement against unequal land rights. Examples from the Moroccan south focus debates about land rights, water rights, and archeological and ecological patrimony in the Sahara, contraflow mobility and the renegotiation and capitalization of natural resources. Inspired by the work of Yto Barrada and Yasmine Berriane, I will explore nuances of Morocco’s re-positioning through recent local case studies that I have been following: with rainfall fluctuation not only shaping the PIB/GNP but also re-introducing nomadism in consistent if still limited ways, and with drip-irrigation creating new agricultural products for European markets; with solar panel development and the marketing of power to other African nations; and with the flux of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, return and reverse migration from Spain, and the relocation of Saharawi from Tindouf.