Both climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic present powerful reminders of the importance of a resilient agricultural sector for ensuring food security and for protecting livelihoods and jobs. Yet, over the past decade, Egypt’s agricultural sector performance and output growth in key food crops has slowed.

The future of agriculture in the face of climate change ultimately depends on the extent of climate change impacts and various actors’ adaptation choices, including those of the government, agricultural producers, consumers, and investors. For example, Egypt’s contribution to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) highlights the urgent need for the country to adapt to climate change. It proposes to increasingly adopt heat, salt, and pest tolerant cultivars; to improve water use efficiency; and to invest in agricultural technology developments and improved irrigation.

This webinar will launch a new report on “Climate-Resilient Policies and Investments in Egyptian Agriculture: Sustaining Productivity and Food Security”. The report presents the latest impact estimates of climate change on Egyptian agriculture and provides new estimates of the costs and benefits of alternative adaptation investments.   The commentators and discussion will shed light on the ongoing initiatives to scale up Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) solutions in Egypt and present options for leveraging private sector financing and climate finance in CSA.