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The Egyptian-African cooperation is considered a powerful tool to enhance agricultural investment through the optimal utilization of the natural resources by these countries in facing food security issues, filling the food gap, and benefiting from strong cultural ties, geographical proximity and available natural resources. Those opportunities help to establish integrated agricultural projects aimed at meeting the Africa’s food needs. This paper analyzes the opportunities of the African agricultural sector and the Egyptian cooperation in the agricultural field in Africa, and explores the opportunities that characterize the agricultural sector in Africa with a focus on a number of African countries with a comparative advantage according to the different regions of the continent. The paper ends with presenting the challenges facing Egyptian agricultural cooperation, in addition to ways and mechanisms that would face these challenges, through the following points: First: Analyzing the potential of the agricultural sector in Africa; Second: Egyptian-African Agricultural Cooperation; Third: The attractive Opportunities Agricultural Cooperation in Africa; Fourth: The Challenges Facing Egyptian Agricultural Cooperation in Africa; Fifth: The Mechanisms to Face Challenges of Egyptian Agricultural Cooperation in Africa The study indicates that cooperation with African countries could be as one group to coordinate between them through a balanced and integrated development strategy through its continental institutions such as the African Union, the Economic Commission in Africa and others. So that a comprehensive Egyptian investment strategy should be based on integrated strategic investments between African countries, which contributing to ensure African food security in the agricultural production sectors and the provision of the water resources necessary for this production, in addition to the supportive investments in the framework of a beneficial partnership in the field of infrastructure supporting the agricultural sector
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