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S. A. Zahran
List of abbreviations
FAO
Food and agriculture organization
(GSD) Green sustainable development
IPCC
Inter-governmental panel of climate change
RCPs
Representatives concentration pathways
(SDGs) Sustainable development goals
WFP
World food program
1 Introduction
Increasing water and food demands in Egypt is very fast, which resulting mainly from
many challenges such as population growth and climate change. These challenges
add more stress on gross demotic product (GDP) and national policy. Such stresses
need better management and conservation of our natural resources to fulfill our
requirement.
Egypt is very limited water resources which characterized as arid and semi-arid
country. It depend on the River Nile that comes from outside the country and shared
with other riparian basin countries, with limited amount of precipitation at coastal
area and Sinai, and some confined and non-confined aquifer. All these resources,
doesn’t satisfy the demand especially with increase of population growth rate. Whatever the agriculture is an important sector for food security and the biggest user of
water. Rather than the other demands for the development requirement which also
is rising fast which should be has a green sustainably sound.
In this context and especially for the rainfall agriculture which faced particular challenges of unpredicted rainfall due to climate change and low productivities
and because of the generally arid climate, there are a high level of development of
water resources for irrigation and relatively high levels of performances in agricultural water management. In addition to that the Groundwater as well has become a
significant source of agriculture water across Egypt.
Green Sustainable Development (GSD) is that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. At
the core of sustainable development is the need to consider “three pillars” together:
society, the economy and the environment. No matter the context, the basic idea
remains the same—people, habitats and economic systems are inter-related.
These may be conducted by applying the new approach of nexus especially
between water, climate and foot security (WCF), which are interrelated with each
other and facing from the same challenges with cross cutting strategies and plan for
green sustainable development.
Achieving for the “GSD” green strategies and plans for WCF nexus need special
institutional inter sectorial mechanism for cooperation and formulating throw the
mainstream national strategy.
S. A. Zahran
List of abbreviations
FAO
Food and agriculture organization
(GSD) Green sustainable development
IPCC
Inter-governmental panel of climate change
RCPs
Representatives concentration pathways
(SDGs) Sustainable development goals
WFP
World food program
1 Introduction
Increasing water and food demands in Egypt is very fast, which resulting mainly from
many challenges such as population growth and climate change. These challenges
add more stress on gross demotic product (GDP) and national policy. Such stresses
need better management and conservation of our natural resources to fulfill our
requirement.
Egypt is very limited water resources which characterized as arid and semi-arid
country. It depend on the River Nile that comes from outside the country and shared
with other riparian basin countries, with limited amount of precipitation at coastal
area and Sinai, and some confined and non-confined aquifer. All these resources,
doesn’t satisfy the demand especially with increase of population growth rate. Whatever the agriculture is an important sector for food security and the biggest user of
water. Rather than the other demands for the development requirement which also
is rising fast which should be has a green sustainably sound.
In this context and especially for the rainfall agriculture which faced particular challenges of unpredicted rainfall due to climate change and low productivities
and because of the generally arid climate, there are a high level of development of
water resources for irrigation and relatively high levels of performances in agricultural water management. In addition to that the Groundwater as well has become a
significant source of agriculture water across Egypt.
Green Sustainable Development (GSD) is that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. At
the core of sustainable development is the need to consider “three pillars” together:
society, the economy and the environment. No matter the context, the basic idea
remains the same—people, habitats and economic systems are inter-related.
These may be conducted by applying the new approach of nexus especially
between water, climate and foot security (WCF), which are interrelated with each
other and facing from the same challenges with cross cutting strategies and plan for
green sustainable development.
Achieving for the “GSD” green strategies and plans for WCF nexus need special
institutional inter sectorial mechanism for cooperation and formulating throw the
mainstream national strategy.