As desertification dries up farmland across the Arab world, the region's governments cannot remedy concerns about food security solely by looking to Africa for agricultural production, a regional ...

Through projects like the Toshka Project and Sharq El Owainat, vast stretches of arid land are being transformed into fertile farmland using advanced irrigation systems and renewable energy sources .

Agriculturists have been gradually pushed out, many of them richly compensated. The farmers standing up for their fertile lands may appear to be a mere hurdle on the state’s development highway.

Most Egyptians have always lived in the fertile stretch along the Nile, which accounts for less than 10 percent of the country’s territory, and which is also the nation’s breadbasket.

The United States will immediately start offering a rapid pathway to citizenship for South African farmers, President Trump said in a social media post on Friday, falsely claiming that South ...