Introduction to “Climate Change
Impacts on Agriculture and Food
Security in Egypt”
El-Sayed Ewis Omran and Abdelazim M. Negm
Abstract This chapter introduces briefly the main technical components of the
chapter presented in the book. The technical contents of the chapters are presented
theme-wise arrangement. The book contains 25 chapters arranged under five themes
to covers different topics associated with climate change impacts on agriculture and
food security in Egypt.
Keywords Climate change · Egypt · Climate variability · Land and water
resources · Smart farming · Livestock · Fishery · Aquaculture · Socioeconomic
impacts
1 Background/Overview
The current generation’s primary concern is the undesirable changes taking place in
global warming and global climate and environment. There is nothing permanent.
We all know that it is imminent to change. Yet why are we so alarmed by the global
climate change? Climate change writing often falls into one of two opposite traps,
both of which could be are avoided by applying the ideas of this book. This is not a
story of gloom and doom, of the inevitable catastrophe of the climate. On the contrary,
it outlines, in more detail than usual, what can and should be done to prevent real
disaster risks. It is also not, however, a story of complacent congratulations on “win–
win” policies, cautiously incremental steps, and “green” policy choices. It calls us
to an endeavor worthy of the twenty-first century’s resources and ingenuity, to bold
initiatives with large costs—and far greater benefits. Climate change has become,
E.-S. E. Omran
Department of Soil and Water, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522,
Egypt
e-mail: ee.omran@gmail.com
A. M. Negm (B)
Department of Water and Water Structures Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig
University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt
e-mail: amnegm@zu.edu.eg; amnegm85@yahoo.com
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
E.-S. E. Omran and A. M. Negm (eds.), Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Food
Security in Egypt, Springer Water, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41629-4_1
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Impacts on Agriculture and Food
Security in Egypt”
El-Sayed Ewis Omran and Abdelazim M. Negm
Abstract This chapter introduces briefly the main technical components of the
chapter presented in the book. The technical contents of the chapters are presented
theme-wise arrangement. The book contains 25 chapters arranged under five themes
to covers different topics associated with climate change impacts on agriculture and
food security in Egypt.
Keywords Climate change · Egypt · Climate variability · Land and water
resources · Smart farming · Livestock · Fishery · Aquaculture · Socioeconomic
impacts
1 Background/Overview
The current generation’s primary concern is the undesirable changes taking place in
global warming and global climate and environment. There is nothing permanent.
We all know that it is imminent to change. Yet why are we so alarmed by the global
climate change? Climate change writing often falls into one of two opposite traps,
both of which could be are avoided by applying the ideas of this book. This is not a
story of gloom and doom, of the inevitable catastrophe of the climate. On the contrary,
it outlines, in more detail than usual, what can and should be done to prevent real
disaster risks. It is also not, however, a story of complacent congratulations on “win–
win” policies, cautiously incremental steps, and “green” policy choices. It calls us
to an endeavor worthy of the twenty-first century’s resources and ingenuity, to bold
initiatives with large costs—and far greater benefits. Climate change has become,
E.-S. E. Omran
Department of Soil and Water, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522,
Egypt
e-mail: ee.omran@gmail.com
A. M. Negm (B)
Department of Water and Water Structures Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig
University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt
e-mail: amnegm@zu.edu.eg; amnegm85@yahoo.com
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
E.-S. E. Omran and A. M. Negm (eds.), Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Food
Security in Egypt, Springer Water, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41629-4_1
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