1st Edition

Agribusiness as the Future of Agriculture The Sugarcane Industry under Climate Change in the Southeast Mediterranean

By Youssef M. Hamada Copyright 2021
328 Pages 19 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

328 Pages 19 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

328 Pages 19 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

This informative book reviews the challenges of agribusiness in the Southeast Mediterranean. The author focuses on sugarcane cultivation in Egypt to illustrate the impact of climate change on agribusiness, and his method and findings may be helpful for other studies in other regions as well. As climate change creates new risks to human populations and food security, a better analysis is needed... Read more
1. Introduction  2. Agribusiness for Southeast Mediterranean’s Prosperity  3. Climate Change: Causes and Effects  4. Climatic Impacts on Global Warming  5. Climatic Impacts on Crop Yields and Net Farm Incomes  6. Climate Change and Food Security: An Overview  7. Future Threats to Agricultural Food Production  8. Promoting Agribusiness Development in Southeast Mediterranean Sea  9. Potential Alleviate Poverty in Rural Areas for Climate Change Adaptation  10. The Future of the Sugarcane Industry in Upper Egypt as a Case Study of Agribusiness

Biography



Youssef M. Hamada, PhD, is an Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Economy at the Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Egypt. In addition, he was a researcher at the Central Laboratory for Design and Statistics Analysis Research. He received his BSc in Agriculture Economics, his MSc in the economics of the bread industry, and PhD in the possibilities of the bread-industry development at A.R.E. from the University of Al-Azhar, Egypt. He received his Diploma in Translation Arabic–English from the Translation Center, American University, Egypt. He was awarded training from ECARDA, Aleppo, Syria, (training course for building databases and electronic websites on the Internet) and an International Training Workshop on Economic Development Policies and Practices for Desertification and Dry Land for Affected African Countries from the Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China. He has published more than 30 papers in local and international journals as well as two book chapters and one book.