Climate change negatively affects Egypt’s agriculture sector. This brief summarizes the results of a modeling exercise to examine a range of climate change adaptation approaches to counteract agricultural productivity declines.

With climate change, Egypt’s already arid climate will face even higher temperatures and lower rainfall over key agricultural areas, requiring further urgent adaptation investments.

Four case studies: Somalia, Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen

One and a half billion people still live in fragile, conflict affected areas. People in these countries are about twice as likely to be malnourished and to die during infancy as people in other developing countries.

Owing to a succession of crises and worsening poverty, food security in Egypt started to deteriorate as early as 2005.

Owing to a succession of crises and worsening poverty, food security in Egypt started to deteriorate as early as 2005.

Agricultural trade liberalization has been resisted by many developing country policymakers, including those in the Middle East and North Africa, for fear it could hurt domestic farmers and exacerbate poverty.

Egypt's food subsidy system has been a mainstay of the government's long-term policy of promoting social equity and political stability.

Egypt’s food subsidy system has been a mainstay of the government’s long-term policy of promoting social equity and political stability.

Since its earliest years IFPRI has conducted research on food subsidies, concentrating on methods to achieve the social objectives of subsidies without undue distortion of the economy or excessive economic and political costs.