Building Resilient Food Security Systems to Benefit the Southern Egypt Region Project-Climate Change

Egypt is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to the potential impacts of climate change. The socio-economic impacts of this climate change-induced food insecurity may be significant on the communities of Southern Egypt. In response, the Government of Egypt represented by the Executive Agency for Comprehensive Development Projects (EACDP) and the World Food Programme (WFP) in 2013 started implementing the project “Building Resilient Food Security Systems to Benefit the Southern Egypt Region”. Officially, the project was launched in March 2013. The project aims at enhancing climate resilience and improving food security of the Southern region and to build institutional capacity at all levels to enable sustainability and replication. The project activities meet great success in achieving the desired targets over the past six years. Project Areas: Assiut, Sohag, Qena, Luxor and Aswan. Partners and Stakeholders:  Environmental Affairs Agency  Agriculture Directory  Education Directory  Social Solidarity Directory  Irrigation Directory  Veterinary Medicines Directories  Agricultural Research Center  Partner NGOs.  Farmers' Sub-syndicate  Egyptian Meteorological Authority