Sustainable development in Egypt: Problems and solutions

These days,  Egypt faces two big problems related to sustainable development. First, water for agriculture is low. Second, tourism in the archelogical sites is not sustanable in the long time. Then I will examin this problems and I will raise some solutions.

To begin with, Egypt is an agriculture country. Production of cotton, sugar, corn, wheat is important in the global context. But, this production is concentred in the Nile valley. The big chance today is traslated the agriculture activity to de other places in the dessert. To solve this problem, the goverments are making to irrigation programs for carry water. The tecnology has an important contribution in this goal (FAO, 2013).

The second problem is sustainable tourism.The more important source of foreing exchance in Egypt is the tourism. However, presence the tourists in the archeological sites threat to impact this important place. Expected in the 2017 is receive 16 millons turists.

"In 2000 the international visitors arrivals in Egypt were almost 5.5 million visitor. With an average length of stay 6.9 day per visitor" (Randy, 2002). 

The goverments have formulating new questions as: "Beside the traditional tourism products, it is required to develop new products in order to promote the tourism of Egypt, such as eco-tourism in desert areas, formulate the newly found ruins in the sea of Alexandria as a product, etc".

In this proced solution is restrict the entry of turist to archeologicals sities and diversifity attractive activities places for tourists. 

References:

Randy, A. (2002) Tourism and development in Egypt. Available in http://planbleu.org/sites/default/files/publications/livreblanc_egy.pdf.

http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Counprof/Egypt/Egypt.html

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652604000137

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Middle_East

http://egyptmajec.blogspot.com/2011/01/importance-of-working-in-agriculture-in.html