Morocco has largely avoided most of the political turmoil that has affected its Arab and north Africa neighbours this year thanks to King Mohammed VI choosing to conciliate rather than repress protests.

In the third of a five part series assessing investment opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa, we look at how this decision helped the country become one of the few in the region to grow in 2011 - by around 4.3% according to the Institute of International Finance - and how it has been a bumper year for Moroccan agriculture.