The Economic Impact of flood hazard on the agricultural resources in affected Areas | ||
| المجلة العربية للعلوم الزراعية | ||
| Volume 8, Issue 27, July 2025, Pages 119-144 PDF (969.71 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/asajs.2025.443286 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mohamed Tohamy Kholif1; Radwa Bakr2; Khaled Gaber3 | ||
| 1Associate Prof. Climate Change and Environment Research Institute, National Water Research Center, Kanater, Kalubia | ||
| 2Researcher, Water Resources Research Institute, National Water Research Center, Kanater, Kalubia | ||
| 3Researcher, Water Resources Research Institute, National Water Research Center, Kanater, Kalubia | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Although Egypt is located within the belt of arid desert with scarce rainfall, seasonal unstable weather conditions occur in Egypt’s eastern desert during spring and autumn, and result in flash floods that largely damage homes, crops and livestock. This frequently occurs for many villages in the mountainous are of Egypt’s eastern desert. Thus, the current study objective is to identify the most important agricultural economic activities that are mostly vulnerable to damages by stronger flash floods in Al-Ibrahimi watershed (wadi), and to estimate and quantify the potential economic damages/losses, and to determine appropriate mitigation/protection actions.The current study developed a field questionnaire that identified the average family income from each of the important agro-economic activities, and used it to collect field information after one powerful flash flood event in Al-Ibrahimi watershed (wadi). The current study performed descriptive and quantitative evaluation of the obtained field data in order to determine the economic losses/damages in the study area, and to use that information in estimating similar losses/damages in other areas under other flash flood events.The current study found that the total agricultural area of 3950 Feddans is vulnerable to flash flood of high-strength at the watershed, with the potential economic losses estimated at LE 31,003,150 during the winter season. The current study also estimated that the flash flood event resulted in 2,291 farm-labor lost employment, in addition to 263 irrigation pumps losing business because of damaged crops. The current study recommends helping unemployed agro-labor with alternate employment opportunities, and/or to compensate affected labor and irrigation pumps’ ad other business owners with the equivalent of their average monthly incomes, according to their professions/activities. | ||
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