Egypt: Land Degradation Issues with Special Reference to the Impact of Climate Change - Combating Desertification in Asia, Africa and the Middle East - page 111

Land Use

Damietta

Alexandria

Irrigated farming
Rough grazing /nomadic herding

Wasteland
Oasis

Citrus
Corn
Cotton

Rice

Sugarcane
Wheat

0 100 200 Kilometers

0 100 200 Miles

Fig. 6.2 Land use map of Egypt

4. The Desert Inland: Including the plateau and dry valleys of Sinai and elevated
areas in the Southern Eastern Desert (Fig. 6.2 ).

3 Land Degradation in Agricultural Zones

Land degradation is a risk to the limited areas of cultivated land. The complex
ecosystem of the Nile, which has nurtured civilizations for millennia, has already
been deeply affected in the last 60 years by the construction of the High Dam in the