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Y.M. Youssef ; K.S. Gemail ; H.M. Atia ; M. Mahdy |The destabilization of delta's worldwide due to climate change and human activities presents challenges in meeting the growing demands for freshwater and food. The Nile Delta in Egypt is a prime example of a vulnerable region facing various stre[...]Article
The COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian war have significantly impacted global supply chains, including the food supply chain, in numerous countries. As one of the leading wheat importers, Egypt has been adversely affected by the simulta[...]Article
Intermediaries play a crucial role in the functioning of agricultural and food markets in developing countries through linking production, imports and storage with consumption. We analyse how competition in the intermediary sector and alternativ[...]Article
Egypts quota of Nile River water has been constant since the 1950s, despite the continual agricultural land expansion. To facilitate land reclamation, Egypt has reallocated Nile water from downstream users, mostly smallholders in the old lands[...]Article
Drawing on systems theory, the extended resource-based view and dynamic capability theory, this research develops an integrated framework to offer a more nuanced understanding of the mediating role of dynamic capabilities between supply chain cl[...]Article
Growing water imbalance requires a systematic development process to enable the agriculture sector to address what it faces as challenges. However, the overall longevity and efficiency of developed infrastructure become doubtful if water users a[...]Article
Soil plays an essential role as a habitat, source of nutrients and support for vegetation. Promoting food security and environmental sustainability of agricultural systems requires an integrated approach to soil fertility management. Agricultura[...]Article
Promoting well-functioning ecosystems that maintain the sustainability of agricultural systems in response to climate change remains a major challenge in North Africa. Agroecological practices have the potential to serve as an alternative to che[...]Article
Assessing the energy cycle and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of wheat production in small Egyptian farms is essential to improve wheat productivity to meet population growth and achieve sustainable development. This study aims to compare wheat [...]Article
Most of the approximately 105 million Egyptians depend on wheat in the form of baladi bread for their daily diet. Millions of smallholders along the River Nile have produced wheat for millennia; however, in more recent history, the wheat demand [...]Article
I.A. Elshaer ; A.M.S. Azazz ; S.S. Hassan ; S. Fayyad |In recent years, there has been growing interest in promoting sustainable agriculture and reducing the environmental impact of the food system. One approach to achieving these goals is through farm-to-Fork (FTF) sourcing, which involves direct p[...]Article
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Egypt is one of the countries expected to suffer from climate change in the next 50 years. This study analyses the impacts of climate change on food security dimensions in Egypt during the period 20222070 by using statistical analysis methods ([...]Article
R.A. El Behairy ; H.M. El Arwash ; A.A. El Baroudy ; M.M. Ibrahim ; E.S. Mohamed ; N.Y. Rebouh ; M.S. Shokr |Developing countries all over the world face numerous difficulties with regard to food security. The purpose of this research is to develop a new approach for evaluating wheats suitability for cultivation. To this end, geographical information [...]Article
In Egypt, recent shortfalls in the wheat supply from Russia and Ukraine have necessitated substantial increases in domestic production. As agricultural practices influence the yield of bread wheat, we assessed current production strategies in th[...]Article
D. Pereira ; J.C. Leitao ; P.D. Gaspar ; C. Fael ; I. Falorca ; W. Khairy ; N. Wahid ; H. El Yousfi ; B. Bouazzama ; J. Siering ; H. Hansmann ; J. Zascerinska ; S. Camilleri ; F. Busuttil ; M. Borg ; J. Mizzi ; R. Micallef ; J. Cutajar |Water security is a hot topic all over the world, due to global warming, climate change, natural calamities such as droughts and floods, overuse of water, and other factors. Water issues have been scientifically investigated from several perspec[...]Article
The agricultural sector in the EU Southern Neighbourhood Partners (SNP) is struggling to respond to sustainability challenges. It needs stronger policies to deliver balanced sustainability outcomes in economic, social and environmental terms. Ba[...]Article
A. Elbeltagi ; A. Srivastava ; A.H. Al-Saeedi ; A. Raza ; I. Abd-Elaty ; M. El-Rawy |The estimation of reference evapotranspiration (ETo), a crucial step in the hydrologic cycle, is essential for system design and management, including the balancing, planning, and scheduling of agricultural water supply and water resources. When[...]Article
E. Elsadek ; K. Zhang ; A. Mousa ; G.T. Ezaz ; T.L. Tola ; H. Shaghaleh ; A.A. Hamad ; Y. Alhaj Hamoud |Crop growth models are cost-effective and user-friendly tools for decision-makers to develop efficient in-field management strategies. These models are particularly important in countries such as Egypt, where the risk of water scarcity is inevit[...]Article
H.A.A. Sayed ; Q. Ding ; M.A. Abdelhamid ; J.O. Alele ; A.Y. Alkhaled ; M. Refai |Agricultural production can achieve sustainability by appropriately applying agricultural mechanization, especially in developing countries where smallholding farmers lack sufficient agricultural machinery for their farming operations. This pape[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
H.T. Ali Mekhamer | 2023To characterize the potential of agroecological transformation in Egypt in Luxor Governorate in two areas (Zanqta and El-Baghdadi), the issue of promoting agroecology is viewed differently by agricultural producers, consumers and other actors in[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
C. Galanis | 2023The exponential increase in population has created numerous challenges for humankind. Challenges such as the change of landscape, and the increased need for food production. The most affected sector is the primary, which at the same time has to [...]Communication à un Congrès (avec Actes)
In North Africa agriculture is a significant sector influencing the lifestyle of the population. The current dominant form of cultivation is what is called conventional agriculture, which relys on the use of great amounts of inputs to achieve th[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
R. Mohamed Salah | 2023The scale of the environmental challenges we face today requires create sustainable practices that are socially, culturally, and economically resilient, it is necessary to involve a wide set of stakeholders and partners. Living Labs explore, co-[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
Rainfall in the Maghreb and the Iberian Peninsula arrived too late to bring a beneficial effect on crops. Crop failures occurred in several important grain-producing regions of Spain, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. In other areas, crop growing co[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
The Maghreb and the Iberian Peninsula are facing one of the worst seasonal droughts in recent decades. In comparison with the previous outlook, this resulted in a downward revision to well-below average expectations for the final production part[...]Ouvrage
Les tensions écologiques, ses répercussions de plus en plus visibles et les dangers qu'elles font peser sur les écosystèmes mondiaux, imposent des réponses politiques, y compris aux segments les plus polluants du capital. Ils tentent en effet de[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
The economic contribution of women to agricultural and irrigation activities and to the livelihoods, well-being and food security of families and communities is often unrecognized, invisible and mostly undervalued. Moreover, the role of women in[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
G. Anríquez ; W. Foster ; J. Santos Rocha ; J. Ortega ; J. Smolak ; S. Jansen | Le Caire [Égypte] : FAO | 2023Food loss and waste (FLW) reduction is an important component in the transformation of the regions agrifood systems. Addressing the drivers of FLW along value chains provides an opportunity to tackle some of the inherent problems within the NEN[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
E. Lemaitre-Curri ; D. Gasc ; G. Manfron | Montpellier [France] : CIHEAM-IAMM | MED-Amin Bulletin | 2023The start into the 2023 cereal campaign was mainly influenced by dry conditions with uneven impacts across the Mediterranean region. In Northern and Eastern Mediterranean, despite relatively dry conditions in January and February 2023, crops are[...]Article
This investigation aims to assess the changes of Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) and its impact on ecosystem services value in Damietta Governorate, Egypt. To fulfill this aim, Landsat data of TM5 in 2001, ETM in 2011 and OLI in 2021 were used. The M[...]Article
R.S. Makar ; S.A. Shahin ; M. El-Nazer ; A. Wheida ; M. Abd El-Hady |Climate change and its impact on agriculture and water resources have become a global concern. The implications of extreme weather events on food production and water resource availability are starting to have social and economic effects worldwi[...]Article
Saving fresh water is a big challenge for the next generation due to enhanced living standards and population growth. In addition, the expansion of agricultural and industrial activities is causing unmatched demands for fresh water supplies acro[...]Article
A.M.S. Kheir ; G. Hoogenboom ; K.A. Ammar ; M. Ahmed ; T. Feike ; A. Elnashar ; B. Liu ; Z. Ding ; S. Asseng |Current wheat crop management practices in the Nile Delta of Egypt are unsustainable due to the overuse of limited water resources. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate opportunities to maximize wheat yield and resource efficiency[...]Article
S. Shin ; D. Aziz ; M.E.A. El-Sayed ; M. Hazman ; L. Almas ; M. McFarland ; A.S. El Din ; S.J. Burian |Agricultural land expansion is a solution to address global food security challenges in the context of climate change. However, the sustainability of expansion in arid countries is difficult because of scarce surface water resources, groundwater[...]Article
M. Salman ; I. Ferto ; E. Pék ; I.A. El-Desouky ; S. Zaki ; R. Darwesh ; F. Lebdi ; Q. Alali |Irrigation development is essential for reducing vulnerability to water resource scarcity, food insecurity, and climate change impacts in Egypt. The centralized irrigation development must, however, overcome the challenges of the diversity of sm[...]Article
K. Abay ; L. Abdelfattah ; H. El-Enbaby ; M. Mahmoud ; C. Breisinger |Increasing population pressure and population density in many African countries are inducing land scarcity and land constraints. Tightening land constraints are expected to trigger various responses, including agricultural intensification, as po[...]Article
Groundwater is a vital water resource for economic, agricultural, and domestic purposes in arid regions. To reduce water scarcity in arid regions, recently, remote sensing and GIS techniques have been successfully applied to predict areas with p[...]Article
Land evaluation has an important role in agriculture. Developing countries such as Egypt face many challenges as far as food security is concerned due to the increasing rates of population growth and the limited agriculture resources. The presen[...]Article
Scarcity of water has emerged as a major problem globally due to climate change and population growth, especially in semi-arid and arid regions. Egypt is currently experiencing serious water challenges due to its limited water resources. The wat[...]Article
Due to the increasing concern about climate change and environmental sustainability, the investigation of energy consumption represents a very intriguing and undeniable subject. This study was directed to investigate energy footprints, greenhous[...]Article
Z.M. Nigatu ; D. Fan ; W. You ; A.M. Melesse ; L. Pu ; X. Yang ; X. Wan ; Z. Jiang |Soil moisture (SM) and groundwater (GW) depletion triggered by anthropogenic and natural climate change are influencing food security via crop production per capita decrease in the Nile River Basin (NRB). However, to the best of our understandin[...]Article
Institutional linkages and information flow between agricultural organizations play a critical role in addressing sustainability issues and promoting agrarian innovation. The aim of this study was to evaluate institutional relations and informat[...]Article
The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had a great impact on the agricultural sector, especially in developing countries. In particular, it caused exceptional challenges to small and local-scale farmers. Field questionnaires and interv[...]Article
The purpose of this article is to investigate the factors that influence consumers intention to purchase organic food in Egypt. Given the novelty of organic food marketing in developing countries, much of the factors that influence its consumpt[...]Article
Novel spatial models for appraising arable land resources using data processing techniques can increase insight into agroecosystem services. Hence, the principal component analysis (PCA), hierarchal cluster analysis (HCA), analytical hierarchy p[...]Article
Mediterranean rural settlements suffer from numerous environmental challenges, specifically the annual decrease of the farmlands, climate change threats, and growing resource consumption and demand, such as energy, the core of development. Rural[...]Article
Agro-management zones recently became the backbone of modern agriculture. Delineating management zones for Variable-Rate Fertilization (VRF) can provide important ecological benefits and better sustainability of the new Egyptian farming projects[...]Article
A. Elnashar ; H. Zeng ; B. Wu ; T.G. Gebremicael ; K. Marie |Assessing environmentally sensitive areas (ESA) to desertification and understanding their primary drivers are necessary for applying targeted management practices to combat land degradation at the basin scale. We have developed the MEditerranea[...]Article
Comme la plupart des mers plus ou moins fermées, la Méditerranée compte quelques passages spécifiques, les plus importants en sont sa sortie occidentale du détroit de Gibraltar vers lAtlantique et les détroits turcs qui la connectent avec le ba[...]Article
Shortage of surface water is considered an international problem that has even extended to countries that have rivers, in particular countries sharing the same river basins and downstream countries, such as Egypt. This issue requires intensive m[...]Article
M.E.S. Amin ; E.S. Mohamed ; A.A. Belal ; M.E.M. Jalhoum ; M.A. Abdellatif ; D. Nady ; A.M. Ali ; A.G. Mahmoud |The development of Agro-Ecological Zones (AEZs) is a vital step in sustainable agricultural development. This study proposes a quantitative method for developing the AEZs and land suitability for Wadi El-Grawla, North-Western Coastal Region (NWC[...]Article
T. Ben Hassen ; H. El Bilali ; M.S. Allahyari ; I.M. Kamel ; H. Ben Ismail ; H. Debbabi ; K. Sassi |The COVID-19 pandemic-related measures in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region have resulted in many lifestyle modifications, including changes in diet and food buying patterns among adults. However, the pandemic has impacted women and m[...]Article
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A. Alkhawaga ; A. Alkhawaga ; B. Zeidan ; M. Elshemy |Egypt faces great challenges to manage its limited freshwater resources. Shortage in freshwater, due to expected stresses of climatic changes and upper Nile projects, will have major impacts on Egypt's water and food security. About 85% of the a[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
A. Morina | 2022Climate change is one of the world's most critical issues, particularly in areas with dry and hot climates, where even minor changes can cause major problems. Developing countries, such as Egypt, are having a difficult time adapting to climate c[...]Article
Desertification is a serious threat to human survival and to ecosystems, especially to inland desert oases. An assessment of desertification severity is essential to ensure national sustainable development for agricultural and land expansion pro[...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
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The Russian Federation and Ukraine are major global suppliers of cereals and sunflower oil, while the Russian Federation is also a leading exporter of fertilizers and energy. Due to the devastating war in Ukraine, global prices for these commodi[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
E. Kertolli | 2022In this century, the hardest challenge that the world has started to experience is climate change, as a short term solution adaptation to climate change is becoming a more prominent topic of discussion everywhere around the world. The objective [...]Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
M. AbdelMonem ; T. Wong ; O. Elbadawy ; J. Faurès ; M. Tawfic ; F. Abouzeid | Le Caire [Égypte] : FAO | 2022This publication examines a number of interventions and practices implemented in Egypt by small-scale farmers, private sector stakeholders, and the state, and analyses the extent to which they contribute to the three-climate smart agriculture (C[...]Article
Y.A. Sayed ; Y.A. Sayed ; M.E. Fadl |Agricultural sustainability development is essential in the modest Egyptian national income to improve land production and conservation of natural resources, which must cope with population growth with addition of new land reclamation that has l[...]Article
Egypt suffers from severe water scarcity, which affects the sustainability of agricultural production. Therefore, the sustainable use of available water resources under water scarcity requires the adoption of water allocation policies favoring c[...]Article
This paper aims to determine and classify the land cover and assess the impact of agriculture expansion on the land surface temperature (LST) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in El-Beheira Governorate, Egypt. To achieve these ob[...]Article
Egypt is considered a net wheat importer, with the Egyptian market being vulnerable to future wheat markets because of the effect future market price discovery can have on the stability of spot prices. This study assesses the relationship betwee[...]Article
Agricultural expansion areas in the Egyptian deserts are one of the main governmental inputs that increased during the last decade. Evaluation of such agricultural lands helps decision makers in strategic planning of future projects. The present[...]Article
Food system analysis in arid and semi-arid countries inevitably meets water availability as a major constraining food system driver. Many such countries are net food importers using food subsidy systems, as water resources do not allow national [...]Article
Water conflicts in transboundary watersheds are significantly exacerbated by insufficient freshwater sources and high water demands. Due to its increasing population and various development projects, as well as current and potential water shorta[...]Article
Developing and disseminating resilient rice cultivars with increased productivity is a key solution to the problem of limited natural resources such as land and water. We investigated trends in rice cultivation areas and the overall production i[...]Article
Innovative irrigation techniques should be implemented to improve irrigation management in dryland countries. In this regard, a new scheme, that uses three sets of irrigation depth and numerically simulated cumulative transpiration, was evaluate[...]Article
Long-term impact of wastewater irrigation on soil pollution and degradation: a case study from Egypt
There is consensus on the impact of wastewater irrigation on soil properties and heavy metal accumulation. The studies that show the impact of temporal changes as a result of different long-term additions of wastewater on the heavy metal accumul[...]Article
Organic agriculture (OA) in Egypt is well-developed and still fast growing. Improving the relation between organic farmers and the other agents in the chain can provide a positive contribution to the whole organic chain competitiveness. One poss[...]Article
Securing agricultural commodities for a growing population requires a paradigm shift in agricultural thinking. An appropriate agricultural development pathway should be determined, which may include larger land extensions and water consumption o[...]Article
This paper presents a comprehensive study to assess the impact of climate change on Egypt?s water resources, focusing on irrigation water for agricultural crops, considering that the agriculture sector is the largest consumer of water in Egypt. [...]Article
Migration is inseparable from social and economic transformations and it plays a crucial role in shaping rural livelihoods. In this paper we review the existing evidence on internal and international migration in four countries of the North Afri[...]Article
The crop yield modeling remains a central input in the assessment of climate change risks. This study aims at investigating to what extent that rainfall, temperature and runoff could ably transmit significant information needed for analyzing and[...]Article
Desertification is one of the most important problems facing arid and semi-arid regions, whether it is caused by irresponsible human activity or due to natural conditions or both. The objectives of the study were to assess the environmental sens[...]Article
Nile water availability is one of the major constraints for agricultural development in Egypt. This study conducts a mixed multiplier analysis, under water and land constraints, to identify the seasonal agricultural activities with high output a[...]Article
Nowadays, even with the growth and progress of the agricultural sector, the food gap (FG) is still wide, particularly for strategic crops, affecting the national economy and compromising the food security. The realization of self-sufficiency can[...]Article
Climate change might have direct impacts on water quantity in Egypt and lead to indirect effects on Mediterranean saltwater intrusion to groundwater, which exposes agriculture to vulnerability. This study investigated impacts of climate change o[...]Article
O. Chen ; A. Abdelhalim ; Y. Liu ; M. Rico-Ramirez ; D. Han |The Nile Delta has been suffering from complex environmental hazards caused by climate change and human-induced evolvements, which have led to adverse impacts on national food security. An unfavourable nexus between solid waste management issues[...]Article
The Siwa region located in the Western Desert of Egypt has 30,000 acres available for reclamation as a part of a national project to increase agricultural production. This study addressed the climate change-driven long-term concerns of developin[...]Article
S. Ouda ; T. Noreldin ; J.J. Alarcon ; R. Ragab ; G. Caruso ; A. Sekara ; M.T. Abdelhamid |In many areas of the world, water shortages prevail and threaten food production. Deficit irrigation was commonly investigated in dry areas as a precious and sustainable production approach. Using the CropSyst model to simulate the effects of di[...]E-Book
This informative book reviews the challenges of agribusiness in the Southeast Mediterranean. The author focuses on sugarcane cultivation in Egypt to illustrate the impact of climate change on agribusiness, and his method and findings may be help[...]Ouvrage
M. Abu-Hashim, ed. ; F.K. Allouche, ed. ; A. Negm, ed. | Cham [Suisse] : Springer | Springer Water | 2021This book focuses on the status quo and the latest information on the water-soil-agriculture nexus in the MENA countries. It presents several case studies and applications from e.g. Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan, while also sharing[...]Article
Quantifying the economic effects of climate change is a crucial step for planning adaptation in developing countries. For Egypt, global warming has put it among the most vulnerable countries. Wherefore, this study assesses the economy-wide impac[...]Actes de Congrès ou Communication isolée
A. Lopez-Francos, ed. ; M. Jouven, ed. ; C. Porqueddu, ed. ; H. Ben Salem, ed. ; A. Keli, ed. ; A. Araba, ed. ; M. Chentouf, ed. | Zaragoza [Espagne] : CIHEAM-IAMZ | Options Méditerranéennes : Série A. Séminaires Méditerranéens, ISSN 0253-1542 | 2021The 1st Joint Meeting of the FAO-CIHEAM Network on Sheep and Goats (Subnetworks on Nutrition and Production Systems) and the FAO-CIHEAM Subnetwork on Mediterranean Pastures gathered more than 130 participants from 15 different countries in Mekne[...]Article
Large estimates of food losses among farms and intermediaries publicized recently by several international organizations invite the question: Why do economic decision makers live with such losses? The intuitive, economic response would be that t[...]Article
Eco-tourism is a growing part of the tourism industry. However, there are no agreed-upon criteria of what constitutes eco-tourism, so the industry is currently self-identified, with eco-lodges simply declaring themselves so. Here we present the [...]Article
The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted many activities along agri-food supply chains in developing countries and posed unprecedented challenges in particular to small and medium agri-food enterprises (SMEs). Drawing on a [...]Article
This study examines the migration intentions of young people in Egypt before and after the 2011 revolution, driven by three sets of factors: (1) individual demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, (2) household characteristics, and (3) com[...]Article
E. Iwasaki ; S. Elbeih ; A. Shalaby ; H. Khedr ; E.S. Zaghloul |The number of deep groundwater wells in the arid lands of Egypt has increased greatly since the mid-twentieth century. Modern well drilling technology using rotary drilling rigs and pumping tests came to Egypt with the beginning of the New Valle[...]Article
A. Elbeltagi ; M.R. Aslam ; A. Malik ; B. Mehdinejadiani ; A. Srivastava ; A.S. Bhatia ; J. Deng |Spatial-temporal information of different water resources is essential to rationally manage, sustainably develop, and optimally utilize water. This study focused on simulating future water footprint (WF) of two agronomically important crops (i.e[...]Article
A. Elbeltagi ; J. Deng ; K. Wang ; A. Malik ; S. Maroufpoor |Crop evapotranspiration (ETc) is one of the most basic components of the hydrologic cycle that is effective in irrigation system design and management, water resources planning and scheduling, and hydrologic water balance. Thus, precise estimati[...]Article
Depuis le milieu du XXe siècle, les périphéries désertiques égyptiennes sont devenues le lieu de projection de l'avenir de l'agriculture nationale. Une véritable frontière agro-désertique a émergé, se déplaçant à des rythmes inégaux au cours des[...]Article
Land reclamation is critically required to overcome the environmental and anthropogenic challenges in arid lands. The Western Nile Delta region, Egypt, is experiencing rapid reclamation processes for agriculture expansion. West Nubaria (781.92 k[...]Article
M.E. Said ; M.E. Said ; A.M. Ali ; M. Borin ; S.K. Abd-Elmabod ; A.A. Aldosari ; M.M.N. Khalil ; M.K. Abdel-Fattah |The development of the agricultural sector is considered the backbone of sustainable development in Egypt. While the developing countries of the world face many challenges regarding food security due to rapid population growth and limited agricu[...]Article
The Egyptian government initiated a development project in 2015 to reclaim 1.5 million acres with the primary goal of increasing agricultural production. Siwa is one of these areas in the Western Desert of Egypt, with 30,000 acres using groundwa[...]Article
V. Alary ; S. Messad ; A. Aboul-Naga ; M.A. Osman ; T.H. Abdelsabour ; A.-A.E. Salah ; X. Juanes |On newly cultivated lands in deserts as in the majority of dryland areas, the sustainability of agricultural systems is often debated in terms of socioeconomic viability and agro-ecological longevity. In these contexts, livestock production syst[...]