The Initiative was originated by the Joint Declaration in 2002, signed by the Egyptian and Italian Ministries of Agriculture, Yousef Way and Gianni Alemanno.

The Green Corridor is an initiative aiming to strengthen and rationalize the cooperation between Italy and Egypt in the agro-food sector, in order to achieve common profits in the globalization of the markets. The objective is to increase the export of Egyptian fruit and vegetables towards Italy and, through Italy, towards Europe, as well as to open the Egyptian markets to some Italian fruit and vegetables. It is necessary to protect the Italian producers’ productive and commercial plans, and for this reason two concepts have been set: the periodicity and the complementarity. The Egyptian and Italian producers organize together the first part of the chain, guaranteeing that the Egyptian products enter the Italian and European markets in the agreed periods and quantities.