Update, Conclusions, and Recommendations …
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– Strategies have also acknowledged the importance of improving the institutional
structures of research and extension services in Egypt as well as the importance
of allocating sufficient funds to agricultural research and public extension
services.
– The capacity building of public extension workers and of farmers is expected
to have great benefits, in addition to enhancing the structures of cooperatives
through the introduction of necessary changes to guarantee a more participatory
involvement of farmers in the decision-making processes and the regulation of
the involvement of the private extension services to complement governmental
efforts.
– Making new investment plans for introducing climate-smart technologies and
adopting new production practices that may help increase farms’ technical
efficiency that in turn, will help to increase agricultural output and reduce the
variability of yields.
– Improving local markets infrastructure and logistics, this will help to smooth
the supply of food and facing international markets volatilities. Considering that
family farming, which represents the majority of all farms in Egypt, improving
their technical efficiency, allows reducing production costs and improving
competitiveness that can help them face fluctuating market conditions and
economic hardships.
– As climate impact on agriculture is intensifying, Egyptian agricultural policies
needs to be developed that technically support farmers through training to
improve their skills to face these effects, minimizing carbon emission from
agriculture the recycling of agricultural waste instead of burning it.
– Use new varieties of cereal crops that are more resistant to climate impact.
Develop markets for carbon credits to regulate the right to pollute.
– Promote sustainable use of natural resources like the current government
initiatives of reducing rice and sugar cane crops cultivated areas to reduce water
consumption and adoption of advanced irrigation systems that efficiently use
water.
– Future research will not only focus technical efficiency, which is the first
component of economic efficiency but as well will investigate the allocative
efficiency that represents the second component of economic efficiency and
total factor productivity for each farming system. Since investigating only on
tuning the technical efficiency is not sufficient to be more competitive.
– More research needs to be done to enhance our understanding the responses
of farmers to climate shocks under different economic conditions and different
technology access. To develop more climate-resilient crop production systems,
a global analysis of these issues is crucial.
– Given global climate change, food trade globalization, and the growing
importance of food imports to maintain national food balance in many countries,
we claim that addressing these knowledge gaps globally is crucial.
– The establishment of an analysis and reporting mechanism by the NCCC and
the Ministry of Finance for direct climate finance to cover the disbursement use
and effectiveness of funding.
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– Strategies have also acknowledged the importance of improving the institutional
structures of research and extension services in Egypt as well as the importance
of allocating sufficient funds to agricultural research and public extension
services.
– The capacity building of public extension workers and of farmers is expected
to have great benefits, in addition to enhancing the structures of cooperatives
through the introduction of necessary changes to guarantee a more participatory
involvement of farmers in the decision-making processes and the regulation of
the involvement of the private extension services to complement governmental
efforts.
– Making new investment plans for introducing climate-smart technologies and
adopting new production practices that may help increase farms’ technical
efficiency that in turn, will help to increase agricultural output and reduce the
variability of yields.
– Improving local markets infrastructure and logistics, this will help to smooth
the supply of food and facing international markets volatilities. Considering that
family farming, which represents the majority of all farms in Egypt, improving
their technical efficiency, allows reducing production costs and improving
competitiveness that can help them face fluctuating market conditions and
economic hardships.
– As climate impact on agriculture is intensifying, Egyptian agricultural policies
needs to be developed that technically support farmers through training to
improve their skills to face these effects, minimizing carbon emission from
agriculture the recycling of agricultural waste instead of burning it.
– Use new varieties of cereal crops that are more resistant to climate impact.
Develop markets for carbon credits to regulate the right to pollute.
– Promote sustainable use of natural resources like the current government
initiatives of reducing rice and sugar cane crops cultivated areas to reduce water
consumption and adoption of advanced irrigation systems that efficiently use
water.
– Future research will not only focus technical efficiency, which is the first
component of economic efficiency but as well will investigate the allocative
efficiency that represents the second component of economic efficiency and
total factor productivity for each farming system. Since investigating only on
tuning the technical efficiency is not sufficient to be more competitive.
– More research needs to be done to enhance our understanding the responses
of farmers to climate shocks under different economic conditions and different
technology access. To develop more climate-resilient crop production systems,
a global analysis of these issues is crucial.
– Given global climate change, food trade globalization, and the growing
importance of food imports to maintain national food balance in many countries,
we claim that addressing these knowledge gaps globally is crucial.
– The establishment of an analysis and reporting mechanism by the NCCC and
the Ministry of Finance for direct climate finance to cover the disbursement use
and effectiveness of funding.