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Bilal Derardja
Land and Water Resources Management Department, Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)—Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, 70010 Valenzano, Italy

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Journal article
Published: 09 March 2021 in Sustainability
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Nowadays, even with the growth and progress of the agricultural sector, the food gap (FG) is still wide, particularly for strategic crops, affecting the national economy and compromising the food security. The realization of self-sufficiency can be fulfilled only by achieving the highest production efficiency along with preserving the natural resources currently available, especially arable land and irrigation water. In this analysis, the FG in Egypt was modeled for 13 crops between the years 2000 and 2018. The linear model applied suggested a redistribution of crops in terms of production, food demand and land reallocation, in order to find the best solution to minimize the FG on the basis of crop value and under a set of constraints. It was found that the value of the modelled FG increased steadily from 2005 to 2017, then it started to decline slightly, probably due to the steady increase in the population growth rate which is a crucial factor in enlarging the FG. Furthermore, important water loss was noticed through the analysis period. In fact, there was a huge difference, reaching around 25 billion m3 between the water consumed for the studied crops and the total amount of renewable water. The main reason for this loss can be linked to the traditional irrigation methods used, such as surface irrigation. Moreover, the calculation of food demand with the estimated production and the redistribution of crop land reallocations were performed to achieve the best model fit between the crops in terms of minimizing the FG in Egypt. So far, the current agricultural policy has reaped limited gains and a steep decline of food economic balance. Hence, significant interest on rising productivity should be given by the government to achieve the food self-sufficiency in Egypt.

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Mohannad Alobid; Bilal Derardja; István Szűcs. Food Gap Optimization for Sustainability Concerns, the Case of Egypt. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2999 .

AMA Style

Mohannad Alobid, Bilal Derardja, István Szűcs. Food Gap Optimization for Sustainability Concerns, the Case of Egypt. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (5):2999.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Mohannad Alobid; Bilal Derardja; István Szűcs. 2021. "Food Gap Optimization for Sustainability Concerns, the Case of Egypt." Sustainability 13, no. 5: 2999.

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Published: 18 March 2019 in Water
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The perturbation in hydraulic networks for irrigation systems is often created when sudden changes in flow rates occur in the pipes. This is essentially due to the manipulation of hydrants and depends mainly on the gate closure time. Such a perturbation may lead to a significant pressure variation that may cause a pipe breakage. In a recent study, computer code simulating unsteady flow in pressurized irrigation systems—generated by the farmers’ behavior—was developed and the obtained results led to the introduction of an indicator called the relative pressure variation (RPV) to evaluate the pressure variation occurring into the system, with respect to the steady-state pressure. In the present study, two indicators have been set up: The hydrant risk indicator (HRI), defined as the ratio between the participation of the hydrant in the riskiest configurations and its total number of participations; and the relative pressure exceedance (RPE), which provides the variation of the unsteady state pressure with respect to the nominal pressure. The two indicators could help managers better understand the network behavior with respect to the perturbation by defining the riskiest hydrants and the potentially affected pipes. The present study was applied to an on-demand pressurized irrigation system in Southern Italy.

ACS Style

Bilal Derardja; Nicola Lamaddalena; Umberto Fratino. Perturbation Indicators for On-Demand Pressurized Irrigation Systems. Water 2019, 11, 558 .

AMA Style

Bilal Derardja, Nicola Lamaddalena, Umberto Fratino. Perturbation Indicators for On-Demand Pressurized Irrigation Systems. Water. 2019; 11 (3):558.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Bilal Derardja; Nicola Lamaddalena; Umberto Fratino. 2019. "Perturbation Indicators for On-Demand Pressurized Irrigation Systems." Water 11, no. 3: 558.