Global Environment Protector Mostafa Tolba R.I.P.

The misuse of land, symptomatic of any Middle Eastern country with agricultural territory, as well as construction of roads, airports, housing, and prestige projects on arable stretches in several countries has been robbing terrain of valuable assets as foreseen by a very astute Egyptian scientist.

"We did not build the infrastructure for modern agricultural techniques like sprinkling or drip irrigation," Mostafa Tolba, the former executive director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) who recently passed away in Geneva, told me in 1990.

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