Applicability of sustainable agriculture in Egypt

Abstract

Sustainable agriculture is the practices that use the resources or inputs in a way that may not affect the opportunities of coming generations to get beneficial use of these resources in the agricultural process. The gap between people needs of agricultural products and available resources in Egypt is getting wider. Sustainable agriculture can be reached in Egypt despite all obstacles and threats. Sustainable agriculture has conditions that should be met to achieve successful transition to a sustainable system. Enabling external institutions, embracing resource-conserving technologies should be integrated and work with local communities. Current strategies are not expected to lead us to sustainability in agriculture as it focuses on specific sectors and issues more than another’s. The new strategy of sustainability toward 2030 may put wide lines of the expected beneficiaries of sustainable agriculture practices under Egyptian conditions. There is a need to create and embrace new strategies and plans to access sustainable agriculture. Farmers should share in providing information, analyzing, suggesting solutions, and implementing. Science and research should not be far from agricultural system actors. The most important is the policies that support all of these actions. This chapter gives a description for the current challenges of the agricultural sector in Egypt and how we can go toward sustainable agriculture successfully.