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Evolution of Crop Water Productivity in the Nile Delta over Three Decades (1985-2015)
Estimating crop water productivity (CWP) for spatially variable climatic conditions in Egypt is important for the redistribution of crop planting to optimize production per unit of water consumed. The current paper aims ...
Returns to agricultural mechanization in Egypt: Lessons learned from innovation driven research
In light of both historical and contemporary (political) sensitivity on civil society movements, we chalk out a normative role for the Egyptian private sector, within contemporary systems of agricultural innovation, and ...
Economic and food security benefits associated with raised-bed wheat production in Egypt
Countries in the West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region are dependent on imports of wheat to meet their food security
needs. Mechanized raised-bed wheat production is an effective means of increasing productivity and ...
Impact of climate change and agricultural practices on irrigation water requirements under Nile delta conditions
Agriculture in Egypt consumes about 80% of the available water resources. With an ever-increasing demand and a relatively fixed supply of fresh water, every drop of water should be treated as a drop of life. Consequently, ...
On - Farm Irrigation
The present study aims at improving water management in on-farm using CropWat model.
Explaining shifts in adaptive water management using a gendered multi-level perspective (MLP): a case study from the Nile Delta of Egypt
Understanding the logic behind farmers' choice of adaptive water management practice is important to appreciate the opportunities and challenges they face and to scale targeted solutions effectively. This paper aims to ...
“WP-Calc” for exploring some water productivity improvement scenarios
The aim of this study is to investigate some scenarios aiming to improve water productivity of the level of
mesqa irrigation zone at the traditional irrigated agriculture in the Nile Delta region. “WP-Calc” will be
used ...
Effective management of on-farm irrigation for some major crops in Egypt using CROPWAT model
Field experiments were carried out (2013/2014 and 2014/2015 for wheat; 2014 and 2015 for maize) at the two sites of Giza area (Giza governorate, represented to Middle Egypt) and Shandaweel area (Sohag governorate, represented ...
Econometric Analysis of Factors Affecting Farmers' Adoption of Water Saving Technologies: A Case Study of Raised-bed Technology in Egypt
This paper aims to present results of a socio-economic investigation into factors affecting the adoption of mechanized raised bed (MRB) technology in wheat production in Sharkia Governorate of Egypt. The sample consists ...
Socioeconomic, biophysical, and environmental impacts of raised beds in irrigated wheat: A case study from Egypt
Raised beds (RB) are hailed as means to mitigate the problem of excessive irrigation. However, their adoption and impacts in Egypt are not well-documented. This paper is based on survey data collected from a sample of 691 ...