Is Egyptian food security in danger? Food Security and Climate Change.
As we approach the mid third decade of the third millennium, it is obvious that the climate change is really happening, and is no longer a mere assumption with potential repercussions. It has become a tangible reality with impacts on all aspects of human beings’ lives. It is also apparent that some of these will take a catastrophic turn in the short\ medium term during the second half of the current century at most, if not before. This research paper focuses on the impact of climate change on food security in Egypt, identify the effects of the global food system and food supply chains and its contribution to climate change, and the impact of climate change on food security in Egypt. It proposes some solutions that can limit or mitigate climate change and its expected impact on food in Egypt. The paper uses information, data and figures in an analytical manner to identify the current situation and possible future scenarios of climate change and its consequences on food security in Egypt.
Is the City Sinking? Alexandria Facing Climate Change
In the occasion of hosting the Conference of Parties in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh from 6 to 18 November 2022 with the participation of more than 40,000 people from all over the world, the UN Secretary-General, Anthony Guterres, gave a speech in which he emphasized that climate change is happening at catastrophic speed, and noted that sea levels are rising at twice the speed of the 1990s— posing an existential threat and threatening billions of people in coastal areas. The danger of sea level rise on the northern coasts of Egypt, especially the Nile Delta and Alexandria, has become a source of great concern to the Egyptian population and relevant parties, coinciding with the warnings based on international and local studies, which alerted to the danger of sea level rise change. In this research paper, we review the location of the city of Alexandria on the Egyptian coast, the natural characteristics of the city and the history of the flooding and sinking of some of its parts in the past, to clarify the general context and the conditions that result in the extent of vulnerability to climate change. The second part explores the causes of sea level rise, climate change scenarios, the occurring and expected changes to sea level according to these concepts. It then moves to the threats of future floods and the impact of climate changes on rainfall and temperature in the city. To read the research in Arabic: Click here! Source of the cover photo: Yasmine Hussein
