El-Danasouri, F., Fawaz, M., El-Saadi, A., Abd el Malek, M. (2019). An Economic Study of The Water Footprint and Virtual Water Trade of the Most Important Grain Crops in Egypt. test, 45(4), 271-299. doi: 10.21608/jsas.2019.17078.1168
Fawzi El-Danasouri; Mahmoud Fawaz; Ahmed Bedair El-Saadi; Mohamed Ashraf Abd el Malek. "An Economic Study of The Water Footprint and Virtual Water Trade of the Most Important Grain Crops in Egypt". test, 45, 4, 2019, 271-299. doi: 10.21608/jsas.2019.17078.1168
El-Danasouri, F., Fawaz, M., El-Saadi, A., Abd el Malek, M. (2019). 'An Economic Study of The Water Footprint and Virtual Water Trade of the Most Important Grain Crops in Egypt', test, 45(4), pp. 271-299. doi: 10.21608/jsas.2019.17078.1168
El-Danasouri, F., Fawaz, M., El-Saadi, A., Abd el Malek, M. An Economic Study of The Water Footprint and Virtual Water Trade of the Most Important Grain Crops in Egypt. test, 2019; 45(4): 271-299. doi: 10.21608/jsas.2019.17078.1168

An Economic Study of The Water Footprint and Virtual Water Trade of the Most Important Grain Crops in Egypt

Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Sciences
Article 7, Volume 45, Issue 4, December 2019, Pages 271-299    PDF (1.95 M)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/jsas.2019.17078.1168
Authors
Fawzi El-Danasouri1; Mahmoud Fawaz1; Ahmed Bedair El-Saadi2; Mohamed Ashraf Abd el Malek* 2
1Agricultural Economics Branch, Agricultural Economics Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafr El-Sheikh University,Egypt
2Agricultural Economics Research Institute - Agricultural Research Center, Egypt
Abstract
In view of the current situation and the study of the water crisis experienced by Egypt it is important to develop new concepts to rationalize water consumption, including the concept of water footprint to estimate the volume of water needed to produce the various commodities consumed by humans, Cereal crops in Egypt, rice, maize and wheat during the period (2000-2016), the research was based on secondary data, and the use of both descriptive and quantitative economic analysis methods As long as the general time trend equations, the water footprint estimation model and its indicators,The most important results were a decrease in the per capita water footprint of the rice crop by about 2%, and its per capita growth increased by about 1.7% during the study period, reflecting the positive impact of the agricultural irrigation policy of rice crop, while showing the increase of per capita water footprint of maize and a decrease in The per capita by about 2.68% and the per capita share of wheat increased by 4.2% and the per capita growth increased non significantly, reflecting a shortage of maize and wheat irrigation policy, The research recommends the need to calculate the water footprint of various crops, and recommends the need to address the shortcomings agricultural irrigation policy for maize and wheat crops, such as rice crop.
Keywords
Economic; study; water; Footprint; Virtual; Trade; Grain crops; Egypt
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