Abstract
Agriculture development in North Sinai region is one of the most strategic projects for agriculture extension in Egypt; aiming to create new communities along the region. Farming community in the region is largely composed of traditional small-scale farmers; facing many challenges, e.g. drought and salinity in water and soils and lack of education and agriculture management skills. The paper presents a case study as a success story for improvement of livelihood and productivity of poor farmers under marginal (particularly saline soils and water) resources. A five-year project was implemented in the region; identified the barriers to diversification of the farming system and scaling out. The project approaches and activities were effective in lowering these barriers. It was highly successful in developing more resilient agricultural production systems in an integrated comprehensive approach that helped the participant poor farmers in marginal environments achieving better management of their farm resources along the value chain and attain high production and income. The results of the main activities are presented in the full text paper. The outcomes have been endorsed and adopted by farmers and agricultural authorities. It is important to replicate this model in similar marginal regions in Egypt or somewhere else to scale-up and disseminate high yielding forage/livestock production packages better adapted to the marginal environmental conditions.
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The authors, the National Project Principal investigator, and Project Regional Coordinator wishes to express their sincere gratitude and appreciation to the International Center for Bio-saline Agriculture (ICBA), Dubai, UAE and IFAD for their financial supports.
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El Shaer, H.M., Al Dakheel, A.J. (2017). Adaptation to Climate Change in Egyptian Marginal Environments Through Sustainable Crop and Livestock Diversification: A Case Study. In: Leal Filho, W., Belay, S., Kalangu, J., Menas, W., Munishi, P., Musiyiwa, K. (eds) Climate Change Adaptation in Africa. Climate Change Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49520-0_9
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