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Mideast Egypt Water
Photo caption (1/8): In this Monday, April 11, 2016 photo, An Egyptian farmer stands in front of wheat crops on his land in Kafr Hamouda village, in Zagazig, 63 miles (100 kilometers) northeast of Cairo, Egypt. Farmers ...
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 ...
On - Farm Irrigation
The present study aims at improving water management in on-farm using CropWat model.
Understanding Farmers’ Adaptation to Water Scarcity: A Case Study from the Western Nile Delta, Egypt
This research study analyzes how farmers adapt to water scarcity in the command area of a secondary canal in the Nile Delta of Egypt (al-Bayda Canal). The results of the study show that farmers use several methods to adapt ...
Water and Agriculture in Egypt
The purpose of this working paper is to support the Government of Egypt’s Strategy for
Sustainable Agricultural Development towards 2030 (SADS‐2030). This strategy paper was
published in 2009 and was concerned with the ...
Assessing the Impacts of Agricultural Water Management on Ecosystem Services in the Nile Delta
Egypt suffers from water scarcity and farmers are often forced to use alternative water resources
including recycled and untreated wastewater with elevated levels of non-point source pollutants.
However, continued use of ...
“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 ...
Integrated framework model for water productivity calculations “WP-Calc”: theoretical basics and evaluation
Improving agriculture and irrigation management needs to be based on more efficient and profitable use
of water to produce more crops. “Water productivity” is a simple concept reflects the objectives of
producing more food, ...
Assessing the Impacts of Agricultural Water Management on Ecosystem Services in the Nile Delta
The objective of this study is to test and identify appropriate water and land management strategies that will increase water and land productivity, reduce the demand for chemical fertilizers, increase farmers’ income, and ...
Less water, more food
In Egypt, a desert country that gets almost all its water from the Nile, the scarcity of water has become a challenge in agriculture. Climate change is worsening the problem through rising temperature and loss of agriculture ...