Desertification In Ancient Egypt

Egypt receives less than 80 mm of rainfall a year, and only 6 percent of the country is arable and agricultural land, with the rest being a desert. This leads to excessive watering and the use of wasteful irrigation techniques such as flood irrigation an outdated method of irrigation where gallons of water are pumped over the crops.

Desertification is a land degradation problem of major importance in the arid regions of the world. Deterioration in soil and plant cover have adversely affected nearly 50 percent of the land areas as the result of human mismanagement of cultivated and range lands. Overgrazing and woodcutting are responsible for most of the desertification of rangelands, cultivation practices inducing accelerated water and wind …show more content…
Urbanization, mining, and recreation are having adverse effects on the land of the same kind as is seen on range, dry farming, and irrigated lands. Combating desertification can be done successfully using techniques already known if financial resources are available and the political will to act is present. We find that Egypt, whose population is estimated ninety million almost distributors to increase eight percent area of the total area of Egypt, and this percentage clustered in areas around the Nile basin, especially the northern areas, which is one of the more fertile areas, and the result was, the destruction of agricultural land, and creeping desert land on the fertile lands account, which significantly led to the decline in domestic agricultural production, increase the problems facing the state at all levels, economic, health, political, environmental and even social, so we can see the dire consequences if the population distribution is not true. The reconstruction of the desert solution to all the problems that can confront us in this area, lies in good governance in the population distribution, and this is not only the process of the reconstruction of