The Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS): Egypt 2030 aims at creating a modern, open, democratic, productive, and happy society. A participatory planning approach was adopted to prepare the SDS. The civil society organizations and the private sector were leading this process, to ensure the enforcement and implementation of the policies, programs and initiatives that will be adopted to achieve the targets of the strategy. In order to make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable, the Egyptian agriculture development plan aims at unlocking the sector’s high growth potential, generating a large number of jobs and achieving large productivity gains. It follows a two-pronged approach: (i) vertical development aims at increasing production per unit on the “old land” of the Nile Valley and the Delta through the improvement of water management systems and irrigation networks, (ii) horizontal development into new “reclaimable” land in the desert, focusing on the Eastern and Western regions, will be implemented through heavy investment in land preparation and water resources development from aquifers. The agribusiness development strategy includes five main investment opportunities including the creation of strategically located collection points and storage facilities, facilitating and promoting investments in aquaculture, developing agro-industrial parks, and developing tomato processing and olive oil production. The agro-logistical hub aims to streamline existing agriculture supply chain inefficiencies in Egypt. This could be done through a network of collection centers and centralized hubs adequate for storing various crops. Regarding the reduction of the rural poverty, the government plans to improve the business environment, attracting domestic and foreign private investments, implementing mega projects, including the Suez Canal project, supporting large and medium size firms, in addition to several initiatives adopted to promote entrepreneurship are expected to have significant improvements on creating decent jobs and reducing unemployment.
埃及 · 2014-01-01