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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[...]