In 2015, the Government of Morocco and the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. aid agency, signed the Morocco Land and Employability Compact. This Compact includes a project to title 46,000 hectares of collective land in the Gharb region, thereby turning it into private property. Privatization of collective land in Morocco aligns with mainstream development discourses that argue for formalizating tenure status and integrating customary lands into market systems. These discourses emphasize that market integration leads to greater productivity, enhanced access to credit, and increased land values, all of which benefit rural populations. However, they largely fail to account for how agrarian transformations resulting from privatization have differentiated impacts on different rural population groups, particularly young people. There has been a recent resurgence of interest in rural youth among both academics and policy-makers. This burgeoning literature often claims that young people have little interest in either working in agriculture or continuing practices of family farming. At the same time, young people’s interest in agricultural work is framed as one key factor determining the future of rural life around the world. In Morocco, studies have noted inter-generational tensions over access to land, new modes of agricultural production, as well as desires by some rural youth to maintain their family farms. However, the integration of land into market systems as well as gendered and class-based opportunities structure which young people are able to take advantage of rapid transformations in the countryside. In this paper, I address the ways in which young rural men in the Gharb plain conceive of their current and future positionality within systems of agricultural production in the context of ongoing tenure transformation. My research is based on three months of fieldwork in the region, using ethnographic observation and semi-structured interviews. I frame this project at the border between agrarian political economy and youth studies, drawing on concepts from both. Agrarian political economy emphasizes shifts in modes of production, changing practices of land tenure, and the integration of rural labor into market systems. Youth studies, by contrast, emphasizes how young people practice the life period of youth, which is best seen as a socially constructed category that marks a transition between childhood and adulthood. In this paper, I use an integrated analysis that combines a model of shifting agrarian structures with a youth-centric framework to understand how young rural Moroccans position themselves as subjects in a rapidly-transforming countryside.