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Applicability of Sustainable Agriculture in Egypt

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Sustainability of Agricultural Environment in Egypt: Part I

Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry ((HEC,volume 76))

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Sustainable agriculture is the practices that use the resources or inputs in a way that may not affect the opportunities of coming generations to get beneficial use of these resources in the agricultural process. The gap between people needs of agricultural products and available resources in Egypt is getting wider. Sustainable agriculture can be reached in Egypt despite all obstacles and threats. Sustainable agriculture has conditions that should be met to achieve successful transition to a sustainable system. Enabling external institutions, embracing resource-conserving technologies should be integrated and work with local communities. Current strategies are not expected to lead us to sustainability in agriculture as it focuses on specific sectors and issues more than another’s. The new strategy of sustainability toward 2030 may put wide lines of the expected beneficiaries of sustainable agriculture practices under Egyptian conditions. There is a need to create and embrace new strategies and plans to access sustainable agriculture. Farmers should share in providing information, analyzing, suggesting solutions, and implementing. Science and research should not be far from agricultural system actors. The most important is the policies that support all of these actions. This chapter gives a description for the current challenges of the agricultural sector in Egypt and how we can go toward sustainable agriculture successfully.

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Abbreviations

ABE:

Agricultural Bank of Egypt

B/C ratio:

Benefit-cost ratio

ECES:

The Egyptian Center for Economic Studies

FAO:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Feddan:

Local unit of land area = 4,200 m2

GDP:

Gross domestic products

GIS:

Geographical information system

IEA:

International Energy Agency

L.E:

Egyptian pound

MALR:

Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation

NEDCO:

National Enterprise Development Company (Sri Lanka)

NGO:

Nongovernmental organization

NRC:

American National Research Council

Toe:

Ton of oil equivalent (amount of energy released by burning one ton of crude oil)

US$:

United States dollar = 17.85 L.E

USA:

United States of America

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  1. Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Damietta University, Damietta, Egypt

    Moataz Elnemr

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

    Abdelazim M. Negm

  2. Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

    Mohamed Abu-hashim

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Elnemr, M. (2017). Applicability of Sustainable Agriculture in Egypt. In: Negm, A.M., Abu-hashim, M. (eds) Sustainability of Agricultural Environment in Egypt: Part I. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 76. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2017_156

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