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E.-S. E. Omran and A. M. Negm
1 Introduction
While the world is facing unprecedented transitions and threats, we need to deeply
rethink the relationships between agriculture, food production, and climate change.
Climate change is the goal number 13 in the 2030 agenda for sustainable development
adopted by the United Nations, which addresses the target action to combat climate.
Agriculture is one of the most vulnerable economic sectors to climate change, mainly
due to the limited availability of water and land resources. There is a future risk of
higher skills shortages related to the impact of climate change on agricultural sectors
and food production. Particularly, there is a need for highly specialized scientists in
the field of agriculture and food security who want to combine scientific and social
or policy skills to better understand and make significant contributions to climate
adaptation and mitigation in agriculture and food security. Therefore, it is critical to
integrate agricultural science with related subjects that impact on sustainability and
food security such as geo-politics, legislation, and regulation, consumer pressures,
economics, and agro-ecology.
While urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts can be taken through
Sustainable Development Goal 13, this book tries to answer the question “How
will climate change affect food security and sustainable agriculture?” that will help
promote sustainable agricultural development and food security goals. This book
takes stock of current knowledge and analyses the most recent trends in climate
change impact on agriculture.
Therefore, this chapter will present general conclusions of the climate change
impacts on agriculture and food security in Egypt. It is necessary to give due
consideration to the characteristics of various climate change impacts, which render
the resultant system unsustainable. So, the intention of the book is to address the
following main theme.
– An overview of climate change in Egypt.
– Land and water resources.
– Smart farming.
– Livestock, fishery, and aquaculture.
– Socioeconomic impacts.
The next section presents a brief of the important findings of some of the
recent (updated) published studies on the climate change impacts on agriculture
and food security in Egypt, then the main conclusions of the book chapters in
addition to the main recommendations for researchers and decision makers. The
update, conclusions, and recommendations presented in this chapter come from an
investigation of data collection presented in this book.
E.-S. E. Omran and A. M. Negm
1 Introduction
While the world is facing unprecedented transitions and threats, we need to deeply
rethink the relationships between agriculture, food production, and climate change.
Climate change is the goal number 13 in the 2030 agenda for sustainable development
adopted by the United Nations, which addresses the target action to combat climate.
Agriculture is one of the most vulnerable economic sectors to climate change, mainly
due to the limited availability of water and land resources. There is a future risk of
higher skills shortages related to the impact of climate change on agricultural sectors
and food production. Particularly, there is a need for highly specialized scientists in
the field of agriculture and food security who want to combine scientific and social
or policy skills to better understand and make significant contributions to climate
adaptation and mitigation in agriculture and food security. Therefore, it is critical to
integrate agricultural science with related subjects that impact on sustainability and
food security such as geo-politics, legislation, and regulation, consumer pressures,
economics, and agro-ecology.
While urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts can be taken through
Sustainable Development Goal 13, this book tries to answer the question “How
will climate change affect food security and sustainable agriculture?” that will help
promote sustainable agricultural development and food security goals. This book
takes stock of current knowledge and analyses the most recent trends in climate
change impact on agriculture.
Therefore, this chapter will present general conclusions of the climate change
impacts on agriculture and food security in Egypt. It is necessary to give due
consideration to the characteristics of various climate change impacts, which render
the resultant system unsustainable. So, the intention of the book is to address the
following main theme.
– An overview of climate change in Egypt.
– Land and water resources.
– Smart farming.
– Livestock, fishery, and aquaculture.
– Socioeconomic impacts.
The next section presents a brief of the important findings of some of the
recent (updated) published studies on the climate change impacts on agriculture
and food security in Egypt, then the main conclusions of the book chapters in
addition to the main recommendations for researchers and decision makers. The
update, conclusions, and recommendations presented in this chapter come from an
investigation of data collection presented in this book.