Egypt has a population of about 80 million people who live and work in only 4% of the country, concentrated along the Nile River. Although land is distributed relatively equitably, agricultural land is scarce and the high level of population growth has reduced land per capita. With 57% of the total population living in rural areas and 29% of the total labor force working in the agriculture sector, agriculture accounts for 14% of the country’s total GDP.
A new brief from IDRC: Solutions to the problem [of providing clean water for everyone] have long focused on increasing water supplies through technological means — dams, diversion of water streams, and desalination, among them. But they aren’t enough: meeting the world’s water needs also requires…
Valor: €280,000.00
Donantes: Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency
Valor: $1,200,000.00
Donantes: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Valor: $2,000,000.00
Donantes: Belgian Development Agency
Valor: $350,000.00
Donantes: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Denmark)
Valor: $5,200,000.00
Donantes: United States Agency for International Development
30 Marzo 2021
What are the state-of-the-art and new approaches to land consolidation as part of integrated rural development strategies in North Africa and Near East? That was the main question around which several experts from Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and Turkey joined the FAO/ RVO roundtable discussion…
