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enhancing adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change in Egypt requires coordination and integration between the main related national strategies such as Egypt’s
Vision 2030 [1], the Sustainable Agricultural Development Strategy [2], and Egypt’s
National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction
[3]. Climate change adaptation is of paramount importance to agriculture, given
the reliance of the sector on climate. Climate change adaptation policies should be
based on science, and incorporate knowledge of indigenous peoples and traditional
practices.
Keywords Resilience to climate change · Vulnerability · Adaptive capacity ·
Agricultural production in Egypt
Acronyms
ACSAD The Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands
COP
Conference of the Parties
ESCWA The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
GIZ
The German Development Agency
IFAD
International Fund for Agricultural Development
IPCC
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
RICCAR The Regional Initiative for the Assessment of the Impact of Climate
Change on Water Resources and Socio-economic Vulnerability in the
Arab Region
SDG
The Sustainable Development Goal
UNEP
The United Nations Environment Program
UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
1 Introduction
It is expected that population of the world will increase by one third by 2050 (about
2 billion people), most of them will be in the developing countries. According to
FAO, agricultural production should be increased by 60% by 2050 to provide the
necessary food and feed demand, if the growth rate of income and consumption
maintain the same level. To provide the growing population with its food requirement and contribute to poverty reduction, It became essential for agricultural to be
transferred into more productive systems. However climate change is introducing
new challenge, under the business as usual scenario, that will hinder the efforts to
achieve food security due to impact of climate change on agricultural production
through increasing temperature, reducing precipitation and rising the see level [4].
M. A. S. Abdel Monem and B. Radojevic
enhancing adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change in Egypt requires coordination and integration between the main related national strategies such as Egypt’s
Vision 2030 [1], the Sustainable Agricultural Development Strategy [2], and Egypt’s
National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction
[3]. Climate change adaptation is of paramount importance to agriculture, given
the reliance of the sector on climate. Climate change adaptation policies should be
based on science, and incorporate knowledge of indigenous peoples and traditional
practices.
Keywords Resilience to climate change · Vulnerability · Adaptive capacity ·
Agricultural production in Egypt
Acronyms
ACSAD The Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands
COP
Conference of the Parties
ESCWA The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
GIZ
The German Development Agency
IFAD
International Fund for Agricultural Development
IPCC
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
RICCAR The Regional Initiative for the Assessment of the Impact of Climate
Change on Water Resources and Socio-economic Vulnerability in the
Arab Region
SDG
The Sustainable Development Goal
UNEP
The United Nations Environment Program
UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
1 Introduction
It is expected that population of the world will increase by one third by 2050 (about
2 billion people), most of them will be in the developing countries. According to
FAO, agricultural production should be increased by 60% by 2050 to provide the
necessary food and feed demand, if the growth rate of income and consumption
maintain the same level. To provide the growing population with its food requirement and contribute to poverty reduction, It became essential for agricultural to be
transferred into more productive systems. However climate change is introducing
new challenge, under the business as usual scenario, that will hinder the efforts to
achieve food security due to impact of climate change on agricultural production
through increasing temperature, reducing precipitation and rising the see level [4].