Another interesting example that offers insights into processes of water resource management in Egypt are the recent attempts to shift cropping patterns toward less water-consuming crops.
Second, Egypt, blessed with fertile land, regular irrigation water and limitless sun, was a net exporter of food and textiles before British colonialists shifted crop production towards cotton to feed the mills driving their industrial revolution, and by 1914 cotton accounted for 92% of the total value of Egyptian exports.
Using oilseed Brassicas as model species will not only define the potential hazards involved in simply shifting crop species initially to overcome abiotic limitations imposed by climate change, but will actually define the basis for capturing the benefits and opportunities these alternative Brassica species offer as a means of coping with climate change.
Adaptation measures in irrigated agriculture include fallowing land, shifting cropping patterns, increased groundwater pumping, reservoir storage capacity expansion, and increased production of risk-averse crops.
The experimental results confirm that both proposed methods can successfully capture the features of an image even if it is shifted, cropped or rotated to any degree.
Such an efficiency improvement will have important social as well as economic impacts, e.g. when changes in the cropping pattern are required (shift from crops with a high water demand to less sensitive crops (MWRI 2005).
However, it is contrary to Jones and Thornton (2010), who predicted that climate change would induce a shift from crop to livestock production.
Butt et al. ([2005]) reports that the shift in crop production patterns southwards in Mali has helped to mitigate welfare losses.
However, simulation results for the Growth and convergence (A1) and Regional centers (A2) scenarios indicate a shift from crop to milk production and, thus, a slight increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
At low elevations, a shift from crop to milk production leads to a significant decline in food provision due to the lower human nutritional value of grassland compared to arable land.
