The GoE prioritizes rural development and rural transformation as a critical thematic sector to its sustainable development strategy. Precisely, building resilience and assuring livelihood support to the marginalized majority by scaling up rural development, will translate to a more widespread and inclusive growth, steadily narrowing down the poverty gap.

Smallholder farmers

The world's smallholder farmers produce around a third of the world's food however, tend to be the most vulnerable to food security and climate change issues. In Egypt, WFP collaborates with the Ministry of agriculture and land reclamation to provide support to vulnerable smallholder farmer and Bedouin communities to improve their resilience through technology transfer, market-access training, diversification of livelihoods, and the creation and rehabilitation of assets.

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Egypt

Specific key activities include consolidating fragmented lands, introducing solar energy and low-cost water-saving irrigation, reducing losses in cases of foreseen extreme weather events, introducing improved varieties of common crops and non-traditional crops, and diversification of livelihoods through agro-processing and animal revolving loans.

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Livelihood enhancement

Enhanced livelihoods entails improvements to current livelihoods through increased and diversified economic opportunities to earn a living, such as linking farmers and women entrepreneurs to new markets through ecommerce; introducing new post-harvest value addition processes such as agro-processing units; financing literacy and access etc.

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Egypt

In 2021, the MALR and WFP engaged in innovative and highly successful and impactful livelihood support targeting 60 of the most vulnerable communities in Upper Egypt as identified under the national ‘Decent Life’ initiative “Hayah Kareema”.

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