Authorities have made food security a top priority in the last five years, considering Algeria’s growing population, rising consumption and income levels, and its exposure to volatile commodity prices. Food imports increased nearly 65% in the last five years from €4.3bn in 2009 to €7bn in 2013. Food represented 17.5% of total imports in 2013, and its value has continued...
Agriculture is an anchor of Algeria’s non-hydrocarbons economy, contributing 8.9% of GDP and employing over 2.4m people in 2013. The government has made it a priority to boost domestic production to reduce its ever-rising import bill and end the country’s reliance on imports of dietary staples such as cereals and milk. Algeria has made great strides since the 2008 launch...
A major employer and contributor to GDP and export earnings, Egypt’s agriculture sector thrives despite limitations imposed by geography. The country has been one of the breadbaskets of a range of great empires, and the fertile Nile Delta is one of the region’s most important agricultural areas. As demand rises from Egypt’s growing population, the country – the world’s single...
Egypt’s single biggest desert agricultural development is the New Valley Project, better known as Toshka ( strictly speaking one of New Valley’s constituent parts), which lies close to the Sudanese border to the west of the Nile, deep in Upper Egypt. Toshka, intended to be a “second Nile Valley”, covers some 200,000 acres (81,000 ha) and is irrigated by a combination of ground...
One of the world’s main producers of oranges, Egypt is also the second-biggest exporter of the fruit. Oranges account for 30% of fruit production and 65% of citrus production, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).
Despite a decline in agricultural production as a percentage of GDP in the past decade, agriculture remains a key component of South Africa’s economy and one of the country’s largest employers. In the latter capacity, in particular, the sector has been touted as a major contributor to the government’s long-term economic and social development strategy, the National...
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