SMALL–SCALE PRODUCTION AND ITS ROLE IN THE SUSTAINABILITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES A COMPARATIVE ANALYTICAL STUDY OF EGYPT, TUNISIA AND MOROCCO

Document Type : Review Article

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1 Post graduate student at Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Research, Ain Shams University

2 Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University

3 Desert Research Centre

Abstract

Many developing countries, including Egypt, suffer from a structural problem in the increase in the food gap of those countries, on the one hand, and insufficient access of the main food producers, especially the poor and small farmers, to environmental resources, on the other hand. Developing countries often depend on agriculture and food production by poor and small-scale farmers, with their small land tenure. This reflects the structural problem in which the generalized and dominant production pattern of globalized market economies is perceived as the only mode that can solve the agricultural and rural development challenges in these countries, even if this results in the exit of the small farmers from agricultural land and their transition to work as agricultural wage labor ,and create more informal employment, an alternative vision sees an exit from the food-gap dilemma and agricultural and rural development in the countryside of these countries by adopting the small-scale production pattern. The study is based on the Descriptive method and the use of economic and financial assessment indictors for a number of small- scale production enterprises in Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia. This is to test the study hypotheses based on assessing the economic feasibility of the enterprises within the framework of small- scale production pattern and other initiatives within the mode exchange markets.
The results of the study showed a strong relationship between the pattern of the small- scale production and the increase in economic rates of return compared to other economic enterprises operating under the exchange markets. Among the recommendations of the study is that the expansion of economic activities based on the pattern of small production helps in improving and sustaining the agricultural land environment.

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Journal of Environmental Science
Volume 51, Issue 6 - Serial Number 6
Part 3: Environmental Economics, Law
June 2022
Pages 173-220

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