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Feddan: an Egyptian unit of surface area; 1 feddan = 24 kirat = 60 m × 70 m = 4200 m2 = 0.42 ha.
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Commercial farming as defined by Bélières et al. (2013).
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EP: Egyptian Pound. The exchange rate was 9.16 EP/Euro at the time of the study.
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Daburon, A., Alary, V., Ali, A., El-Srogi, M., Tourrand, JF. (2018). Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture, the Dairy Farms of Cairo, Egypt. In: Bosc, PM., Sourisseau, JM., Bonnal, P., Gasselin, P., Valette, É., Bélières, JF. (eds) Diversity of Family Farming Around the World. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1617-6_4
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