Food and Agriculture Policy Review: Egypt

Food and Agriculture Policy Review: Egypt

Descripción

This report largely owes to the FAPDA exercise of FAO which collects food and agriculture policy measures, and categorizes them for easier analysis of such policies. Not all the recommended actions for improving the state of the Agricultural sector and Food Security in Egypt had been found in the policies collected for the FAPDA exercise. This does not necessarily mean such policies being decreed by the Government are lacking. Rather it is most likely due to the limited access to the available m easures. However, there is still a clear example of several topics of concern within producer-oriented policies that are reflected within the FAPDA exercise, namely; to increase the productivity of cultivatable land already in use, through increasing quality of crops and their varieties; to more efficiently use the countries limited water resource through limiting its use on specific crops, and increasing the use of more efficient irrigations methods; and improving access of small farmers to mar kets through crop subsidies, remunerative programs, anti-monopoly laws, and easier access to loans.